GP: My receptionist just wouldn’t listen

IN A stark illustration of the problems that the NHS is facing, a GP has told of his battle to persuade one of his surgery’s receptionists to have the jab.

The doctor works at a busy group practice in the South of England which is co-ordinating vaccinations for the local area.

‘She said that she didn’t want to have it,’ the GP said. ‘So one evening I sat down with her and talked t hrough her concerns f or 20 minutes. I explained all about how rigorously the vaccine had been tested, how safe it was and how important it was that as many people as possible have it.

‘ Not to mention the fact that she was working at a surgery where we are seeing lots of elderly and vulnerable people every day.

‘But there was just no convincing her.

‘ She told me the vaccine was something “foreign” and she didn’t want it going in her body. And that was the end of that.’

BORIS JOHNSON is under fresh pressure to introduce vaccine passports in the UK after one British outpost unveiled plans to use them for sporting events.

Gibraltar is looking at requiring spectators to produce a vaccine proof card, which its director of public health says could be used together with a Covid test on the day of the Gibraltar versus Netherlands World Cup qualifier on March 30.

Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove is already reviewing the potential use of Covid passports for travel abroad and to access to services in the UK. But more than 200,000 have now signed a petition against the idea and yesterday Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey wrote to the Prime Minister to tell him to ‘drop this idea now’.

He said: ‘We believe that a vaccine passport would create an unfair two-tier society. People who have not been vaccinated would become second- class citizens and this is intolerable and unjustifiable.’