More than five million people potentially at risk of health complications from flu went unvaccinated in England over the winter. Hundreds of thousands of frontline health workers also had no jab, leaving them open to infecting vulnerable patients.
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Free holidays for carers in Northamptonshire
Free Holidays For Northants Carers
| Author: Lara Davis | Published: 28th March 2011 10:02 |
Two luxury leisure lodges at Carlton Meres Country Park in Suffolk are now available free for holidays to carers in Northamptonshire thanks to a partnership between Northamptonshire Carers, NHS Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire County Council and Suffolk-based Lifestyle Living.
If you are a carer of someone with dementia!
Sleep drug could help dementia
Doctors are leading a new study into a drug associated with sleep which could improve the quality of life for people with dementia.
8:00AM BST 27 Mar 2011
Glasgow-based medical research company CPS Research is heading a clinical trial using a drug containing the sleep hormone melatonin, which it is hoped will reduce the symptoms associated with the illness.
Did you as a home carer get a flu vaccination?
Millions at risk of flu complications went unvaccinated in England
Chief medical officer for England demands big increase in take-up for 2011-12 ‘flu season’, warning health authorities to order enough supplies now
The chief medical officer for England has demanded a big increase in take-up for the 2011-12 ‘flu season’. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA
