The Government has been advised to prioritise the rollout of the first booster jab amid a crisis in healthcare staffing. Figures from the UK Health Security Agency show that the vaccine booster is 90% effective against admission to hospital from the Omicron variant for the over-65s after three months. Meanwhile, protection for those with two doses dropped to about 70% after three months and to 50% after six months. Taking this data into account, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisatio

Ambulance staffing shortages left the emergency service without the required number of workers for more than one in 10 shifts during the summer months, according to Scottish Ambulance Service statistics.A freedom of information request by the Scottish Liberal Democrats found that the ambulance service was more than 20, 000 staff hours short in each of July, August and September – with just 88%, 88.9% and 88.4% of the monthly shifts having the required staffing levels. Figures for the total hours

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LONDON( Reuters)-Attempts to deal with record waiting lists for hospital treatment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are at risk of being derailed by a staffing crisis, which is being exacerbated by the Omicron wave, a lawmaker report said on Thursday. Hospitals are facing extreme pressure as they try to catch up on months of operations that have been delayed and suspended during the pandemic, as COVID-19 hospitalisations rise once more and self-isolation hits staffing levels. There is a record 5.

Waiting lists have reached their worst ever level as the longest strike in NHS history threatens to cripple the health service.A total of 7.47 million patients were waiting for treatment at the end of May in England, official data revealed on Thursday, an increase of 50, 000 since April. Hospital leaders warned that the repeated strikes were hampering their ability to treat patients more quickly and bear down on the massive backlog from Covid. Meanwhile independent experts said NHS performance h

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Tens of thousands of NHS “ reservists ” are to be recruited to bolster the health service’s workforce, as Sajid Javid rolls out a new volunteer scheme nationwide this year. Pilots of the NHS reservists programme have seen almost 20, 000 people enrol across eight NHS Trust areas in the past 14 months. Both clinical and non-clinical recruits are being sought, to perform a range of tasks ranging from supporting the Covid jab rollout to assisting with logistics and IT.Mr Javid, the Health Secretary,

The impact of the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant on NHS staffing levels is a “ huge worry ”, a senior medic has said.Dr Lewis Morrison, chair of BMA Scotland, said the NHS was facing a “ double whammy ” of winter pressures and the latest coronavirus variant.On Friday, Nicola Sturgeon announced Omicron was now the dominant strain of the virus and a “ tsunami ” was beginning to hit Scotland. Speaking to the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme, Dr Morrison said: “ For this to coincide with the

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