I have just seen on the news that staff at A&E, working with children, the elderly and in intensive care are being prioritised for the swine flu jab. I thought people with lung conditions were at higher risk so why are they not vaccinating people who work on chest wards!
Bex
Hi. The news always concentrates on staff who are on the frontline and rarely gives a complete picture of what goes on in a hospital.
All staff who have patient contact are being offered the vaccine wether they are medical staff, cleaners, receptionists etc. In addition, staff like me who actually have to do the tests in the lab for swine flu are being offered it too.
Gem
One NHS hospital told me they expect only 11 per cent of staff to get vaccinated, which is a worry. We will have to watch the vaccination rates. Anyone got a date for it to be available to people with asthma? I rang my local practice yesterday and they estimated it would another 3 weeks, which is longer than I expected.
I phoned our GP surgery today (in South Bucks), husband asthmatic (mild/intermittent at present though he was quite bad as a child/teenager) so was looking for info on when he could have H1N1 jab. Was told they expect the delivery of vaccine on 11 November and their first priority groups for immunisations are children under 16 with respiratory conditions and pregnant women. The advice I was given for adult asthmatics was to check the surgery website for information as to when they should attend. Sounds like it will be at least 3 weeks before hubby can be immunised.
All we (as a surgery) have heard re: dates is that it could be any time within the next four weeks. We've had all the kit for giving the jabs, but the actual vaccine could arrive at any time (although they will give us notice of when they will be delivering it). So it is all very much just ""wait and see""...
Bex,
I work on a respiratory ward and we have all had the jab in the first wave. Our hospital vaccinated A&E, Paeds, Resp Ward, MAU, Maternity and ITU first.
Interestingly we get the jab not because we work with respiratory patients but because our dedicated respiratory ward is also the designated 'swine flu ward' so because we care for patients with swine flu on a day to day basis we are at greater risk of catching it ourselves.
SXX
swineefluu.
hahahaa.
i really dont wanna get swine flu 
is there anything i can do to help prevent me from getting it, as loads of people at school have it!
take a look at this, it's american so not 100% but near enough tinyurl.com/yh73c84
Please don't be complacent about Swine Flu
