Anyone who thinks they have swine flu should phone NHS Direct on 0845 4647 or visit direct.gov.uk/pandemicflu.

Treating flu patients costing York Hospital £7.5k a day

Andrew Lansley

8:56am Tuesday 11th January 2011

THE cost of treating flu patients at York Hospital has been raised in the Commons by York Central MP Hugh Bayley.

Flu advice not to be sniffed at

The Department of Health is reminding people to Catch It, Bin It, Kill It

8:23am Monday 10th January 2011

FLU has the nation firmly in its grip at the moment.

Flu jabs running low in York

James Downing, the pharmacist at the Asda store at Monks Cross in York, with some of the empty flu vaccine boxes left after scores of people went in to get a jab

9:21am Friday 7th January 2011

SOME of York’s leading pharmacies and surgeries have run out of flu vaccine – as York Hospital revealed it is opening a dedicated “flu ward” to deal with growing numbers of sick patients.

York Hospital feels strain of 'flu outbreak

12:00pm Wednesday 5th January 2011

HEALTH services in York are being stretched to breaking point by a huge increase in people suffering from swine flu and other seasonal illnesses.

York Hospital staff praised for swine flu efforts

9:27am Monday 5th April 2010

HARD-WORKING medical staff keeping their colleagues safe from swine flu have been recognised for their efforts at York Hospital.

City of York Council's £65k swine flu bill

8:36am Monday 15th February 2010

COMBATING the threat of swine flu has left council bosses in York facing an unexpected £65,000 bill.

National swine flu service to end

9:47am Wednesday 10th February 2010

SUSPECTED swine flu-sufferers in North Yorkshire are being urged to contact their GP rather than the National Pandemic Flu Service.

Infants offered swine flu vaccine

9:44am Tuesday 26th January 2010

SWINE flu jabs are now being offered to babies and toddlers in York as part of the NHS’s next phase of immunisation.

Pensioners ignore swine flu vaccine

8:10am Thursday 21st January 2010

PENSIONERS in North Yorkshire are failing to take their chance to get protection against the spread of swine flu.

Numbers of people seeking help for ‘swine flu’ halved in North Yorkshire

Dr Phil Kirby

9:13am Wednesday 13th January 2010

THE number of people seeking checks on whether they have caught Swine flu has more than halved across North Yorkshire in the last month.

North Yorkshire GPs' fear people not coming forward for swine flu jab

12:05pm Thursday 3rd December 2009

DOCTORS have sent out a fresh swine flu appeal amid fears pregnant women and vulnerable children across North Yorkshire are not taking their chance to get protection against the virus.

Swine flu warning for North Yorkshire and York mums-to-be and children

1:28pm Wednesday 2nd December 2009

Health bosses have urged pregnant women and children to get the swine flu jab.

Rise in swine flu victims

9:45am Friday 27th November 2009

THE number of people needing hospital treatment for swine flu is increasing in York and the wider county.

Swine flu claims seven more victims in Yorkshire and the Humber

8:59am Friday 13th November 2009

SEVEN people have died of swine flu in the last fortnight in Yorkshire and the Humber out of a total of 16 who have lost their lives in the region since the outbreak began.

Hundreds of at-risk patients invited for swine flu vaccination

Dr John Lockett, of the Jorvik Medical Centre, on Peasholme Green, York, makes a flu vacine injection

8:30am Tuesday 3rd November 2009

ONE of York’s biggest surgeries has started vaccinating hundreds of at-risk patients against swine flu.



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