Nhs Is Not Equipped for a Flu Pandemic Say Doctors

Evening Standard - London (September 26, 2006)

Author: Rebecca Smith

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SEVEN out of 10 doctors believe the NHS could not cope with a flu pandemic on the scale of the 1918 disease that killed 50million people worldwide.

A survey of 1,000 doctors also found that a third think the Government is badly or very badly prepared to tackle such an epidemic.

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Nhs Is Not Equipped for a Flu Pandemic Say Doctors

Experts and politicians gathered today at a London conference to discuss the threa...

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