Should care home workers lose their jobs if they are not vaccinated?

Today’s headlines included reports that Sajid Javid has told care workers that if they won’t be vaccinated, they should move on and get another job.  Next week we’ll be running a little series of articles concerning vaccine hesitancy including a guest post from Ash Cunningham who has a different perspective to mine.  Ash picks up… Continue reading Should care home workers lose their jobs if they are not vaccinated?

Coronavirus – did we set the wrong priorities?

I am continuing to think about how we have done so far during the coronavirus pandemic. As I said in an earlier post, one measure of this is how we are doing against the objectives the Government set out. However, we should also step back and ask whether those were the right objectives.  One issue… Continue reading Coronavirus – did we set the wrong priorities?

Coronavirus in our care homes – why does sorry seem to be the hardest word?

Special Agent Gibbs is the hero of NCIS.  A man of few words with his own traumatic past, he leads a team of agents with a passionate commitment to justice.  One of the unique things about Gibbs is that he has a rule for everything, a code to live by.  One of his best known… Continue reading Coronavirus in our care homes – why does sorry seem to be the hardest word?