Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi tells Sky News the measure is being considered to help stop the virus spreading in hospitals.
COVID jabs could be made compulsory for NHS staff, the vaccines minister has told Sky News.
Nadhim Zahawi said the government is considering making coronavirus vaccines compulsory for healthcare workers to help stop the spread of the virus in hospitals.
He told Trevor Phillips on Sunday: “It would be incumbent on any responsible government to have the debate, to do the thinking as to how we go about protecting the most vulnerable by making sure that those who look after them are vaccinated.
“There is precedent for this – obviously surgeons get vaccinated for hepatitis B. So it’s something we are absolutely thinking about.”
A senior Labour frontbencher warned that “threatening” NHS staff would be less effective than working with those who had doubts about the jab.
Shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire said: “Given we have got a recruitment crisis in parts of the NHS, I think it’s far more important we try and work with staff rather than against them.
“Threatening staff, I don’t think is a good idea.”
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