Hospitalisations in England with flu remains at record level

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National Clinical Director for Urgent Emergency Care at NHS England Professor Julian Redhead says there is "an 18% increase this week from last week in terms of those flu numbers of patients in hospital with flu".  Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We can see increasing each week, I think it's an 18% increase this week from last week,

00:05in terms of those numbers of patients in hospital with flu.

00:09And then we've got a lot of patients out of community who are unwell with flu as well.

00:13And it is a particularly nasty version of flu.

00:16I think people who've had it will recognise that it isn't very nice to have.

00:21But we're really grateful, or I'm very grateful, to the public for the response they've had.

00:25We've seen an increase in the number of vaccines given, over a million from when the start of this wave of flu came in.

00:35And I think that's really important, that we see that reaction, and that's really helped us.

00:40The good thing is that we're seeing some areas where we're seeing possibly a sort of peaking of the number of cases,

00:49but that still means things are really busy, because we're at the height of it.

00:52But hopefully when we start to see things coming down, we've got Christmas coming up.

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