Flu Vaccine; Dentistry and Covid; Diagnosing Coeliac disease; NHS preparations for winter
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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How will this year's expanded flu vaccine programme be delivered? In addition to usual groups the flu vaccine will be offered to all eleven year olds, any household contacts of vulnerable people told to shield, more health and social care workers and - the biggest change - everyone over 50! Dr Margaret McCartney discusses the difficult logistics for GP practices and pharmacies trying to work out how to immunise around half the population, whilst managing PPE, social distancing and infection control. Dentistry and Covid - Eddie Crouch, Vice Chair of the British Dental Association discusses how practices open since lockdown are coping. And a good news story of how the pandemic has instigated change in the diagnosis of coeliac disease. Dr Hugo Penny, one of the authors of new interim guidance, explains while Radhika tells of her personal experience of coeliac disease. Plus NHS preparations for winter. Trevor Smith, Divisional Director of Medicine at Southampton General Hospital, and Professor Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in England, both share their forecasts..
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| 0:41.9 | It seems odd to mention winter after the hot spell we've just had, |
| 0:46.1 | but if the pandemic has taught us anything, |
| 0:48.2 | it's that the NHS is going to be under even more pressure than normal as the nights draw in. |
| 0:53.5 | Like most of us, hospitals have had to change |
| 0:56.1 | the way they work. I'll be finding out how they're preparing for winter and how COVID has |
| 1:00.9 | altered the type of problems they're dealing with, including having to manage a spike in alcohol-related |
| 1:05.9 | disease. We've seen a big rise in recent weeks, and a number of particularly younger people presenting |
| 1:12.3 | with severe liver disease who've been drinking heavily through the COVID lockdown period |
| 1:16.1 | and they've suddenly presented for the first time with severe liver disease. And these are |
| 1:20.1 | people in their 30s and 40s. And from hospitals to the high street. Dentists may be back, |
| 1:26.3 | but what they're able to offer currently is just |
| 1:28.4 | the shadow of the service that existed pre-COVID. I'll be talking to a dentist about the challenges |
| 1:33.3 | they're facing and concerns about the future of some practices. But we start with influenza. |
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