22 July 2009

PANDEMIC INFLUENZA

Swine flu: UK planning assumptions (16th July 2009)
This document contains revised planning assumptions in relation to the current A(H1N1) Swine Flu pandemic. The assumptions are intended to assist local planning across all public and private sector organisations.

Planning assumptions are for both pan-UK and local areas, to take account of the potential variation in epidemic profile from one local area to another.
Guidance

Pandemic flu: ensuring the NHS is ready (9th July 2009)
Following the 2 July decision to move from containment to treatment of swine flu, all eyes are on the NHS as it takes the lead on national systems to deal with high numbers of cases.

The situation is changing daily but a new NHS Confederation briefing, Pandemic flu: ensuring the NHS is ready, looks at the planning that’s already taken place and sets out what boards need to be addressing now ahead of a potential further upsurge in flu cases in autumn 2009.
Briefing

Swine flu: early epidemiology (13th July 2009)
In the first months of its outbreak in the UK, H1N1 mostly affected young people, and was most commonly spread through contact at school, research by the HPA has shown.

These findings are based on an analysis of the first 252 cases of swine flu diagnosed in the UK after news of the virus broke.
Information

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