From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Jane Mulcairons.

For some, it's the most wonderful time of the year, of parties and merriment, but for others, a time of coughs, sneezes and fevers.

There's a concern among NHS bosses that we're facing a bit of a perfect storm over the next couple of weeks.

Flu season has come early this year and the NHS is already under pressure.

The number of people in hospital with it is about twice as high as it usually is at this point of year.

For those who catch it, it is no walk in the park.

I was just absolutely exhausted, just a searing headache, aches, fevery aches at my back and my legs. I had a fever, so I was

hot, cold and everything in between. I couldn't get comfortable. Lack of appetite, so I wasn't

that hungry for the entire time, and just utterly exhausted. The exhaustion, I just wanted to

sleep, and that's not like me at all.

And everything was an effort. It was just one horrible slog for seven days. It was pretty

awful, to be honest. Health bosses are worried. They're concerned that this is going to just

keep climbing over Christmas and into the new year.

And we could be seeing one of the worst flu seasons, you know, in recent memory.

And that's also being fuelled by low vaccination rates, particularly among NHS staff,

which means the flu has more people to spread to, has more people to infect.

And to top it off, resident doctors are striking for the next five days.

That means that it's the worst-case scenario for them this Christmas.

And winter is always the hardest time of year for the NHS.

But to have a bad flu outbreak and strikes by thousands of doctors just makes it really, really tricky.

The Health Secretary and the BMA are at loggerheads.

It's a remarkable, I think actually unprecedented in the history of trade union relations in this country for a trade union

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