Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid has told care home workers to get another job if they are unwilling to get Covid vaccinations.
In an interview with Radio 4 on Saturday, Javid refused calls to extend the 11 November deadline for care home staff to have had two Covid jabs.
"If you work in a care home you are working with some of the most vulnerable people in our country, and if you cannot be bothered to go and get vaccinated then get out and go and get another job,” he said.
"If you want to look after them, if you want to cook for them, if you want to feed them, if you want to put them to bed, then you should get vaccinated. If you are not going to get vaccinated then why are you working in care?".
NHS England data shows 84 per cent of staff working in older adult care homes have had two doses of Covid vaccination as of 12 September.
Javid added: "If you think about elderly relatives you might have in care homes, and the idea that someone wants to look after them and they don't want to take a perfectly safe and effective vaccine... because somehow they have got some objection to this vaccine, then really, honestly, they shouldn't be in our care homes."
