Her comments came after Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, told MPs on Monday night that he would launch a consultation on ending vaccination as a condition of deployment in health and social care settings.
Mr Javid defended the mandatory vaccinations policy, saying the Government “makes no apology for it”.
Care providers reacted to the U-turn with fury amid revelations that they were forced to leave residents in beds and restrict visitors because they had lost staff.
Ms Peters, currently unemployed as a result of her refusal to get a Covid vaccine, said: “If the consultation goes through and scraps mandatory vaccines for both NHS and care workers, there would be nothing stopping me, to be honest, from taking action.
“A judicial review is not necessarily the right pathway, but maybe compensation is. A lot of those people have had a year of anxiety, stress and fear for their livelihoods. It’s had an impact on their mental health. I’m 100 per cent keen for legal action and compensation.
“People have been suffering, and for them, it has meant their whole world has crumbled. Most other care workers are completely worn down by this. People live hand to mouth and that means that, if they lose their jobs, they lose their homes.”
Mr Javid said it was no longer proportionate to require vaccination for NHS staff and health care workers, telling MPs there was a need to consider the impact on the workforce in “especially at a time where we already have a shortage of workers and near-full employment across the economy”.
He said it had been “the right policy at the time, supported by the clinical evidence”, but that as omicron replaced the more severe delta as the dominant Covid variant, “it’s only right that our policy on vaccination as a condition of deployment is reviewed”.
“I’m announcing that we will launch a consultation on ending vaccination as a condition of deployment in health and all social care sectors,” he said. “Subject to the responses and the will of this House, the Government will revert the regulations.”
