Sentence examples for flu programme from inspiring English sources
He dismissed a suggestion that the cost of the pandemic flu programme might be considered excessive when set against other demands, such as for cancer drugs.
Advice has also been given to officials that unpaid carers who are responsible for elderly or disabled people should be in the next phase of the swine flu programme.
The flu programme is complex and intense as we have a lot of people coming for immunisation at once.
In a statement, committee chairman Professor Andrew Hall said: "The JCVI has never recommended that children under five who are not in an at-risk group be vaccinated as part of the seasonal flu programme.
Klaus Stohr, who runs the global influenza programme at the World Health Organisation, says that very few people believe bird flu can be controlled in Asia in the next few years.
A Department of Health spokeswoman stressed that no recommendation on a schools based flu vaccination programme had been made by the committee.
The swine flu vaccination programme is to be extended to almost one in three of the UK population, the Government's Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, announced yesterday.
"The joint committee on vaccination and immunisation has said it is unable at this stage to recommend an extension of the flu vaccination programme as there are a number of issues that it believes need further consideration - for example, the public response to such a programme," she said.
But he also argues for stronger rules to prevent companies from collecting so much data in the first place; this would quite likely curtail unanticipated but valuable uses, like the Google Flu Trends programme.Likewise, he rightly argues for better oversight and protection of whistle-blowers as a way of helping restrain government power.
The move is the second phase of the Public Health Agency's (PHA) childhood flu immunisation programme.
Four-year-old children have been included in the free flu immunisation programme in Wales for the first time.
