NHS staff who refuse to get vaccinated should be stopped from seeing patients, according to an expert advising the Government.
Professor Calum Semple, who sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) believes frontline workers and medics should be required to get jabbed as part of their contract.
All care workers in England will be required to be fully vaccinated from October unless they have a medical exemption - but this rule doesn't yet extend to all NHS staff.
However, a new study discovered that more than one in 10 patients in the UK were infected with Covid-19 during the first wave while receiving hospital treatment for another reason.
But what do you think? Should NHS staff who refuse to get vaccinated be stopped from treating patients? Let us know in the poll below.
"I do passionately believe that people working in health and social care should be vaccinated as part of their contract of employment..." Prof Semple said.
"I may be an outlier on this but I do see the effects on the frontline of hospital transmission and the devastating effect it has on patients that are immune-compromised, those with leukaemia, cancers, extreme susceptibilities...
"I think we need to give our healthcare workers and social care workers time to consider this but if uptake remains poor I think it will become mandated."
