Urging NHS Staff to Take COVID-19 Vaccines Without Mentioning Side Effects Could Be ‘Negligent’: Law Firm

Health bosses must not fail to disclose treatment risks because they wish to prohibit staff from making what they believe to be an ‘unwise’ decision.

Members of the public receive their COVID-19 vaccine or booster at an NHS bus outside an Asda supermarket in the town of Farnworth, near Manchester in northwest England on Dec. 20, 2021. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images

Encouraging NHS staff to take COVID 19 vaccinations without mentioning side effects could be deemed negligent, according to employment lawyers and a workers union.

It comes as a leaked image of a slide and video addressed to staff shows a head nurse urging COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health care workers, without explicitly mentioning side effects.