- What is your experience of receiving the flu vaccination? A senior RCN activist has accused some NHS managers of pressuring nurses into having the flu vaccine so that their trusts could access a share of a £250 million fund to improve A&E care. RCN nursing practice and policy committee chair Ian Norris said some managers had ‘emotionally blackmailed’ staff during the latest flu season. He put this down to incentives announced by health secretary Jeremy Hunt in September – namely that a £250 million pot for tackling winter pressures in England would be shared between trusts who vaccinated at least 75 per cent of staff. Mr Norris presented a paper at an RCN council meeting in London last week describing ‘undue pressure’ on trust staff to be vaccinated. He told Nursing Standard: ‘We heard rumours that some managers were saying to nurses that if they did not have the vaccine then trusts would not meet their targets and there might be cuts to services. It was a kind of emotional blackmail.’ He could not say what sanctions staff would face if they refused to be vaccinated. The RCN supports the principle of encouraging staff to get the vaccine, he added. For the full story go to rcnpublishing/doi/full/10.7748/ns2014.04.28.35.7.s2
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 10:41:16 +0000
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