Fewer than three in five NHS workers at Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust got the flu vaccine this winter
Fewer than three in five NHS workers at Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust in Nottinghamshire got the flu vaccine this winter. ‘Vaccine fatigue’ has been blamed as one reason the rate is going down, both locally and nationally.
Just under 59 per cent of the trust’s eligible healthcare staff got the jab – down from 62 per cent last year. The overall NHS flu vaccination target is 80 per cent, but only 43 per cent of workers got it nationally.A meeting of the trust’s board on Thursday was told research was being carrying out into the growing hesitancy. Robert Simcox, director of people, said: “One of the main reasons we’ve found is vaccine fatigue.
All frontline healthcare and social workers are eligible for the flu vaccine through their employer. It is recommended people get it each year as the vaccine is updated depending on which strains are most prevalent. “We need to communicate the importance, and hopefully it doesn’t take a bad winter to increase the uptake.”
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