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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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
Do you have difficulties being a carer and getting a dentist?
It would be downright shocking for most to realize that the British are nefarious for having particularly bad teeth. Even though the living conditions in the country are contemporary, the dental care facility is not even anywhere close to a corresponding status.
Women, parents, carers, disabled people, teenagers and elderly people fear the cuts
Public sector cuts – the truth
Thousands of publicly funded services across Britain are about to be lost, with devastating consequences
The Guardian, Friday 25 March 2011
Sally Pattison with her daughters Rebecca, and Leigh-Anna. She says Hull’s Little Stars centre has been a lifeline.
A week today the cuts will start to bite. As the financial year ends, grants will run out, contracts will wind up, and charities and services will begin to shut their doors. After months of anxiety about the impact of the cuts, the consequences of the government’s rapid deficit reduction programme will begin to be real.
The Guardian gives a slice of what this will mean across the country, highlighting a cross-section of 50 services that will shrink or cease to exist from the end of this month. Most are unglamorous, obscure, unfeted projects, staffed by employees who are not very well paid, but hugely committed to what they do. All of these losses come as a result of the government’s decision to cut spending by £95bn over five years.
