Analysis: for good policy-making to work, it needs change being ushered in to have backing of all parties involved
The decision to force NHS staff in England to get vaccinated against Covid-19 was always going to generate controversy, but it was also understandable. Sajid Javid’s professed motivation – to protect patients from unjabbed frontline personnel – was sincere, especially given the many thousands of people who have died after becoming infected while in hospital. The health secretary argued his case publicly and passionately, seeking to convert the many sceptics.
But it was also a policy that was flawed from the start and which then encountered many obstacles along the way before meeting an increasingly inevitable demise. It will be little mourned.
