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Nov 2021
Compulsory covid vaccines make recruitment harder, say district care homes
Some Harrogate district care homes have said making covid vaccines compulsory for care home staff will make recruiting new staff even harder.
Recruitment in the care sector is "at crisis point" and some of those working in the field say the government's decision, that comes into play today, has put care home staff in an unfair position.
Klara Spatenkova, home manager at the Manor House in Knaresborough, said out of 65 members of staff she'd lost four because of the new rule:
The director of a home care group covering the Harrogate district said although the ruling doesn't affect his staff yet he agrees recruitment will get harder.
Matthew Nutting works for Radfield Home Care and said:
"Unfair" to only affect care home staff
But other homes said the impact has been minimal. Tracey Holroyd, chair of care home group Warmest Welcome which operates eight homes including the Crest in Harrogate and Westfield House in Killinghall, has only lost two staff members:
Health Secretary, Sajod Javid, has confirmed this week that covid vaccines will become compulsory for all NHS workers. He said it is likely to be enforced by April.
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Barchester runs Thistle Hill and Boroughbridge Manor care homes. A statement from the group said the new ruling won't impact these homes as those who refused the vaccine left months ago:
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