Flu vaccination for staff may become contractual duty, says chief medical officer

Employers should consider making it a contractual duty for NHS staff to have the annual flu vaccination to protect vulnerable patients from catching the disease, England’s chief medical officer has suggested to MPs. Sally Davies told the House of Commons science and technology committee that she believed that staff should be obliged to have the vaccination each year, during an evidence session on Davies’s work held on 6 June. Asked by MPs...