Articles by ‘James Sage’

The Government has announced plans to revoke the legislation making mandatory vaccination a condition of deployment in care homes, the wider social care sector, and the NHS. The decision has clearly already been made…

Social care providers have again faced a challenging year and 2022 looks to hold more of the same. Here are the three things the social care sector will need to address in 2022. A…

Today, 6 January 2022, the regulations extending mandatory vaccination to the wider social care sector and the NHS have become law. Providers have a 12-week grace period to ensure that staff in scope for…

On 8 December, the Government updated its guidance on mandatory vaccination and temporary medical exemptions for care home staff. The self-certified temporary exemption will now expire on 31 March 2022 instead of 23 December…

Partner and head of Health & Social Care James Sage explains the latest guidance from the Department of Health and Social Care on vaccine exemptions.

The Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) Guidance on mandatory vaccination provides some useful guidance for providers but leaves a number of key questions unanswered. We consider these below and call on the DHSC to urgently provide further guidance to support providers.

In this must attend webinar, James Sage of RWK Goodman, Neil Eastwood and Amanda Marques of Cohesion Recruitment will analyse the current legal and recruitment implications of mandatory vaccination and provide practical guidance on how to tackle them.

On 22 July 2021, the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the “Regulations”) became law, introducing a requirement for all care home staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

Draft Regulations have been published requiring care home staff to be vaccinated. The Regulations will need to be approved by Parliament before becoming law, which is expected to happen in July, followed by a 16 week grace period for staff to be vaccinated after the law comes into effect.

The Department of Health and Social Care has given social care providers 16 weeks to vaccinate all staff. All unvaccinated staff will have to be redeployed from frontline roles or face losing their job.