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Authorities in Britain have expressed concern over a low rate of vaccination take-up among healthcare workers that could hamper efforts to tackle coronavirus.
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that around 80 per cent of NHS staff had
been vaccinated, a rate lower than other priority groups, while a
study showed signs of vaccine hesitancy among doctors and nurses at hospitals in Leicester, central England.
An A&E consultant told
The National that many doctors may have been “put off” by the UK’s decision to delay second doses by up to 12 weeks.
The study, which analysed more than 19,000 staff members at hospitals at Leicester NHS Trust hospitals, found that 12,278 (64.5 per cent) of all workers had received a SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. However, just 57.8 per cent of doctors and 62.5 per cent of nurses