Why do nhs admin staff need the vaccine before teachers?

[BrutusMcDogface]

Just that.

I really want to understand why someone who works in an office, away from any patients (and doesn’t even have to go through any corridors that patients will have gone through) get through vaccine, when teachers/school staff don’t?

Of course I don’t begrudge nhs staff their vaccine; absolutely on the contrary. But why aren’t teachers/school staff somewhere on the priority list? Particularly those who are working with children with SEND; all vulnerable, many of whom need personal care.

Please help me to understand.

A) I think this might be the longest thread I’ve ever started!

B) I specifically said I didn’t begrudge the nhs their vaccines; I have nothing but the utmost respect for the amazing people who deal with the shit they do, day after day, year after year.

Thank you (again) to those who have made me see sense re: vaccinating the admin staff. And also thank you to people who have been polite and helpful and said that they agree special school staff should be somewhere on the list, due to the close and personal nature of the job and the vulnerabilities of our children.

The thing so though @BrutusMcDogface is that you are on the list. It’s just not going to get to you as quickly as you hoped, which is fine, we all want this done and it’s never really been explained to the general population how difficult this actually is.

I should add though, that without the NHS, as a whole not just subgroups, we won’t get through this at all and that’s the bottom line.

Totally, @EloraaDanan

I think the weekends make me think too much- too much time (doing absolutely sod all!)

Remember a lot of admin staff are in contact with doctors and nurses, so they could catch it from them.

When I worked in the NHS this was the reason given for everyone having the flu vaccination. If the department I worked in went down it would have had pretty terrible consequences.

I know members of hospital admin staff who are working from home, all under 30, receiving their vaccine in the next couple of weeks. Seems completely unreasonable to me when I have members of my family who are front line emergency service workers who have been given no clue as to when they will receive theirs.

Admin staff in A and E, front line, reasonable.

Admin staff working from home with no plan to bring them back on site? Completely unreasonable.

After patient facing hcps,
all other public facing people including teachers should be given it imo. I don’t begrudge any nhs
Admin staff getting leftovers at the end of the day, but as pp said offering it to those wfh ahead of, say, Teachers, sounds wrong to me.
Teachers should at the very least be put on a stand by list. According to other threads on here that has happened in some areas.