Petition · past parliament

Stop mandatory vaccination law for all healthcare workers .

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

Let all frontline & healthcare workers have the choice to be vaccinated it was suitable at the start of the pandemic for all key workers to put there life at risk from this virus. now we are being forced to be vaccinated or lose our jobs. It will be the vulnerable this will impact on more.
The healthcare sector is already struggling with the lack of healthcare workers at present. Putting the new vaccination law into place is going to cause a loss of thousands of healthcare workers. This will impact on the vulnerable individuals replying on care who will end up be neglected, care needs not being meet with staff shortages. Maybe consider other ways to manage by all healthcare worker taking lathreal flow tests daily and being on zero hour contracts who are not vaccinated.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Do not make COVID vaccination a requirement for health and social care workers: Do not make COVID vaccination a requirement for health and social care workers

Do not make covid-19 or flu vaccine a condition of deployment for NHS workers: Do not make covid-19 or flu vaccine a condition of deployment for NHS workers

Timeline

7 Jan 2022 Petition opened for signatures
14 Jan 2022 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9
Status Rejected
Rejected 14 Jan 2022

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.