Measuring the tip of the iceberg The Health Protection Agency estimates that there were 110,000 new cases of swine flu in England last week,10,000 more than the week before. But […]
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Helen Macdonald on side effects, Tamiflu, and the swine flu hotline
A hundred and five thousand people with flu symptoms were prescribed Tamiflu via the new hotline last week. But there are some unintended consequences. Although consultation rates for flu like […]
Tom Nolan: Collection point nonsense
Talk of swine flu seems to have died down considerably since the launch of the national flu pandemic service in England last week. Despite the lack of news generally, it’s […]
Tom Nolan: Critical care and the pandemic panic
A pandemic of panic A “panic pandemic” is worsening the crisis in the UK said health ministers over the weekend. Andy Burnham, the health secretary, told The Observer of the […]
Sneeze and Click service launched in England
Last week 100,000 people are estimated to have had swine flu in the UK. 840 are in hospital and 63 are in intensive care according to Chief Medical Officer Sir […]
Harry Brown on planned changes to Connecting for Health
Medicine and leading edge technologies have always gone hand in hand over the years, and with the recent explosion of information technologies, medical practice has certainly been at the forefront. […]
Tom Nolan: Prescribing antivirals – is beyond 48 hours too late?
After Monday’s statement to the House of Commons from Andy Burnham (you can watch all ten hours of the commons session here), the RCGP emailed members to summarise this and […]
Tom Nolan: Confusion over flu advice in pregnancy
Government deliver new advice for pregnant women A storm erupted over the weekend about the government’s advice to pregnant women on swine flu. It all started with the National Childbirth […]
Joe Collier: In defence of being unsociable
Although many see me as sociable, and in some respects I know this is true, in reality it is only partly me. In many ways I am much more at […]
Swine flu forecast
Yesterday was a busy day for swine flu in the UK. First we learnt that 65,000 people could die from it in the UK if the government’s worst case scenario […]