One in 10 staff members are still unvaccinated ahead of new rules, its boss has warned.
The boss of one of London's busiest hospitals has said he is worried about losing staff when new rules come in requiring them to be vaccinated.
King's College Hospital chief Clive Kay said his job was to encourage workers to get jabbed - and 10% of his 14,000 staff were still unvaccinated.From the start of April,who have direct face-to-face contact with patients will need to have been vaccinated against Covid. The doctor, Steve James, an ICU consultant, argued that he believed he already had antibodies after catching Covid - and has since told the BBC he believes vaccination should be a matter of personal choice.Sajid Javid spoke to consultant Steve James who said he had not got the Covid vaccine
But pressed on the rules, he acknowledged it could mean people leaving their current job: "There's a possibility if they choose not to be vaccinated they could be redeployed. And if we can't find that opportunity to redeploy them then the consequence is that they will [not have a job]."
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