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The government has finished a consultation about making COVID vaccines compulsory for health and care staff in England.
They intend to bring in new regulations to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for anyone deployed by a registered person delivering Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulated activities who has direct, face-to-face contact with service users. This includes health and care staff with clinical and non-clinical roles, for example: care workers, health care assistants, nurses, paramedics, ODPs, receptionists, managers, ward clerks, porters and cleaners.
Over the Christmas period the Everycare office will be closed from 4pm December 24th 2021 to 28th December 2021.
As ever we will continue to operate a manned on call service 24 hours a day for all our clients and staff.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Up to a quarter of the home care workers will be made to look for other jobs if Covid-19 vaccination becomes mandatory, a new survey reveals.
A six-week consultation was launched on 9 September to decide whether Covid and flu vaccinations should be made compulsory for home care workers and the NHS workforce, but according to the latest survey published by the Homecare Association, it reveals almost a quarter of home care providers thought they would lose over 25 per cent of their staff, “creating a risk” that home care will not be available for “tens of thousands of older and disabled people” who need support in their own home.
The survey also reported around a third of providers would expect to lose under 10 per cent of their workforce, while 40 per cent reported that they would lose between 10 and 24 per cent of their staff. Over 90 per cent thought it was certain or likely that recruitment will become harder if this comes into force and over 80 per cent thought they would need to dismiss staff as a result.
Dr Jane Townson, chief executive of the Homecare Association said: “While progress is being made where currently 83.2 per cent of home care workers have had the first dose of vaccine, and 73.7 per cent the second dose.
“We understand people who use services, and their families expect care workers to be vaccinated. Vaccination is also desirable to help protect the health and safety of care workers themselves.
“The Homecare Association strongly supports vaccination of the homecare workforce and we lobbied hard, right from the beginning, to ensure it was as easy as possible for home care workers to access vaccinations.”
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Everycare Wirral are pleased to announce the appointment of Jacqueline Ryder as the new Registered Care Manager.
Jackie has over 30 years’ experience in the health & social care industry and holds a Level 5 Certificate in Leadership and Management in Care.
Jackie has been promoted after serving 4 years as Senior Care Supervisor here at Everycare Wirral. Jackie is committed to delivering an outstanding care service and continuing the very high standard of care to which our clients are accustomed.
