Frontline NHS workers have described the Covid-19 vaccine rollout amongst staff as a shambles as they struggle to access the jab.

With echoes of the PPE crisis that defined the start of the pandemics devastating impact in March, doctors and nurses have accused the government of compromising patient safety as a result of failing to protect the workforce.

Despite working face-to-face on a daily basis with Covid patients, as well as with others who could be asymptomatic carriers of the virus, healthcare workers say they have been left in the dark about how to get the vaccine.

In some cases, those most at risk have been offered it on a first-come, first-served basis, or been forced to call their own GP surgeries repeatedly.