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<p>A five-week consultation was launched on 14 April to inform decision-making to
make vaccination a condition of staff deployment in older adult care home providers.
We have also introduced a minimum four-visit schedule to ensure as many care home
staff and residents can be vaccinated on-site as possible. For those workers who may
not have been present when the vaccination team visited the specific care home, access
via other vaccination services has been available. Care home workers who would like
to be vaccinated can now also arrange vaccination directly through their general practitioner.</p><p>Additionally,
a significant programme of work is underway to help boost uptake in all communities,
including for care workers and social care staff, as set out in the UK COVID-19 Uptake
Plan which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-uptake-plan/uk-covid-19-vaccine-uptake-plan"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-uptake-plan/uk-covid-19-vaccine-uptake-plan</a></p><p>NHS
England publish weekly data on the number of vaccines doses administered to National
Health Service trust and social care staff in England, which is available at the following
link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-vaccinations/"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-vaccinations/</a></p><p>Data
on those who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine is not collected centrally.</p>
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