GPs should offer the swine flu vaccine to all women of childbearing age, chair of the ICGP Education Committee, Dr Mary Favier, has said.
“The advice is when a woman comes in for a pill prescription you should offer her the swine flu vaccine. It should be offered to all women of childbearing age because if they became pregnant they would then be in a high-risk group,” she said.
She told the conference the prevalence of pandemic H1N1 had decreased over the last three weeks but to expect another peak in February. “That is the pattern in other countries in the southern hemisphere during their winter,” she said.
She said GPs should also expect a peak in meningococcal disease in the coming weeks.
By Niamh Mullen © Medical Publications Ireland Ltd 2007
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