UK: An argument in favour of mandatory seasonal influenza vaccination of health care workers

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This webcast is mercifully short (I prefer to read than to

listen), and cogently puts the arguments in favour of compulsory

vaccination of healthcare workers (an argument I have put in the

past):[1]

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/709580?src=mp & spon=3 & uac=83856HY

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1. English PM. Should we introduce compulsory vaccination?

Vaccines in Practice 2008;1(2):1-3.

(

http://www.vaccinesinpractice.co.uk/vip/).

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Dr M B English

GMC No 3002861

Consultant in Communicable Disease Control

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