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Inside Health: Flu Vaccine; Dentistry and Covid; Diagnosing Coeliac disease; NHS preparations for winter

Flu Vaccine; Dentistry and Covid; Diagnosing Coeliac disease; NHS preparations for winter

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, Flu Vaccine; Dentistry and Covid; Diagnosing Coeliac disease; NHS preparations for winter

Flu vaccine, dentistry and covid, diagnosing Coeliac disease and NHS winter preparations.

How will this year's expanded Flu Vaccine programme be delivered? Dentistry and Covid, why the Pandemic instigated change in diagnosing Coeliac disease and NHS preparations for winter.

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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