Coronavirus: Key Workers

(asked on 26th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of launching a compensation scheme for frontline staff and key workers suffering from long covid.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 10th March 2021

In the NHS, staff on national terms and conditions benefit from up to 6 months of full salary when off sick.

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