'A 'Top Gear' approach to flu clinics must be quashed'

摘要

It's that time of year again, to try and catch, bin and kill any chance of a day off over the next few weeks. It's time to start running the flu clinics and deal with all the challenges they bring. The searches for "at-risk" patients are done. Invitations have been sent out. Extra sharps bins, needles, syringes, cottonwool and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine are available. No one is going to have a needle stick injury. The anaphylaxis kit is readied. Prescribing paperwork has been read, signed and dated. The next step is to contemplate the very real possibility that your patients will turn up before the vaccine ever does.