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'U-turn' on Covid jabs for Scots Ambulance and NHS 24 staff welcomed by union

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Covid jabs for emergency workers. They claimed the decision was a u-turn after ministers’ initial refusal to fast-track vaccines for all Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) and NHS 24 staff.

Unite raised concerns last week over the threat of Covid to Scotland’s emergency response that includes around 500 workers employed by SAS as control room handlers.

A Unite spokesman highlighted that the Scottish Government had argued that both workforces are not ‘patient facing’ and do not qualify for the immediate prioritisation of the vaccination programme.And they claimed that following union pressure ministers have agreed to defer the decision to SAS management who are now planning to vaccinate control room workers nationwide.The first vaccination was.

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