What the doctor ordered: ‘Sickness rates are far too high’

At this time of year, the NHS and its staff rise to magnificent heights. Epidemics of flu and norovirus sweep the nation, resulting in high rates of admission, opening of extra inpatient beds and enormous pressure on primary care, at a point when many frontline staff have got the dreaded lurgy themselves.



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