Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to recruit retired NHS staff to assist in the covid-19 vaccination roll out.

NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Bring Back Staff Programme is actively engaged with 12,749 retired former healthcare professionals, who have expressed an interest in returning to the National Health Service in some capacity over the winter. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s regional teams are contacting these former professionals to seek their support over the winter with a particular focus on the COVID-19 vaccination programme.