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AB124, the issue with NHS management is that they all intentionally shuffle jobs about every 2 years. The result is no accountability for mistakes, incompetence and/ or failure to resolve a problem. Nothing gets done. This occurs at every level of management within the NHS.
Violindog,
Thanks for your reply which is enlightening and concerning in equal measures.
How can we have come to the point where intelligent and medically trained people would take a decision not to be vaccinated based on their political beliefs and workplace grievances? That those beliefs would take precedence over the risks Covid-19 brings to themselves, their loved ones and their patients? It's just so depressing. Then add into the mix the anti-vax movement and scaremongering coverage from the media and uninformed commentators and it's more than depressing, it's a real concern.
Sometimes you read a post that tells you something you didn't know. Violindog yours is one of them. I always suspected the NHS was a mess (for whatever reason) but your message is scary. Do you think a dose of competent management would be helpful, or has the rot set in too far?
Bermudashorts, it's a complex scenario that gives the 20% uptake. I only mix with health care workers, even socially , so I only have a limited viewpoint. I would expect the uptake to be higher in the general public as they see graphs rise and the economy retract.
Putting Covid19 aside, in a "normal" year the uptake for the flu jab is only about 50-60%, and this comes with a Costa Coffee voucher !! What is behind the reason? My personal thought is we see the worst of it and almost gain a feeling of "immunity" . Although health care workers died as a direct result of exposure to Covid19 this doesn't seam to budge this attitude of "invincibility". Secondly, the sector as a whole has such a very deep resentment towards this Government. This was seeded pre Covid19 : cut backs, nurses pay and conditions ( disastrously negotiated by the RCN, but the government still got the blame) medical contracts both junior and at consultant level, this all lit the fire. Covid19 , incompetent hospital management and the PPE fiasco just added fuel in abundance !! You hear comments such as: "if they vaccinate staff they will take away PPE" . This may be a totally wrong conclusion but these attitudes are fast held.. right or wrong. Foreign workers (the majority of staff) have been "banned " from travelling home, if they travel abroad they need to make up the quarentine time by working extra shifts. Although a correct and logical directive these staff are desperate to see their families. Rather than viewing a vaccine as a health "passport" the resentment felt is so strong they are prepared to refuse vaccination by way of sending a message to both hospital management and the Government...a silent but illogical protest.
In the NHS it may be hard to separate pro vaccination against political scepticism/ resentment......will this attitude prevail with the general public ???? I can't say as I'm in my "NHS bubble"
These are good points. I think the more that long Covid conditions become better known, and the realisation that this is new normal without a vaccine, more will accept it for the common good.
ATB all
'only 2/10 are in favour of any Covid19 vaccination'
That's more than a little concerning and doesn't bode well for any vaccines in development whether first or second generation.
Wow...so much anti vaccination comments on that article. Everyone at work has had the flu shot but I would say only 2/10 are in favour of any Covid19 vaccination .... And this is from staff who have seen the affects of Covid first hand. Main reason is they feel they aren't in the risk age group and fear the vaccine more than Covid. Also ,there is allot of anti government feeling in general, and this has become linked with vaccination.
Or rushed by desperation