Flu spread by unvaccinated NHS frontline staff

Flu spread by unvaccinated NHS frontline staff
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Most health workers ignored advice to have a flu vaccination, exacerbating infections in hospital
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Health workers have been blamed for putting vulnerable patients at risk andworsening the winter’s flu outbreak by refusing to have flu jabs.

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Fewer than one in seven frontline NHS staff had a flu jab last year, TheTimes has learnt, despite a recommendation that they do so. The RoyalCollege of General Practitioners called last night for hospital doctors,GPs, nurses, carers and other staff to have compulsory jabs or be bannedfrom contact with patients other than in exceptional circumstances.

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Figures to be published next week by the Department of Health will show thatthe vast majority of health professionals ignored government advice thateveryone in direct contact with patients be immunised.