Blog: Government must treat health workers with respect

Yesterday, we heard the sad news of the first death from the Omicron variant of COVID-19. And for the second Christmas in a row, we are relying on health workers to respond to the latest crisis in the pandemic.
This time, they are under huge pressures to deliver a mammoth booster vaccine programme and are bracing themselves to care for another wave of hospital patients.
The booster programme is vital to saving lives and helping to reduce the number of hospitalisations. It relies almost entirely