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Pregnant women were denied the seasonal flu jab in some parts of the UK, before swine flu began claiming more lives, because not all GPs were aware that mothers-to-be had been made a priority group to receive the jab this winter.
Louise Silverton, deputy general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, told the Guardian that a number of pregnant women had been refused the vaccine by family doctors in autumn.
"In October, when GPs started telling patients to come for immunisation, some pregnant women got it and some didn't. GPs sent some of them away because they thought they didn't need it, because no one had told them that pregnant women had been added to the list of groups of people considered 'at risk'," she said.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/10/pregnant-women-flu-jabs-midwives
Louise Silverton, deputy general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, told the Guardian that a number of pregnant women had been refused the vaccine by family doctors in autumn.
"In October, when GPs started telling patients to come for immunisation, some pregnant women got it and some didn't. GPs sent some of them away because they thought they didn't need it, because no one had told them that pregnant women had been added to the list of groups of people considered 'at risk'," she said.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/10/pregnant-women-flu-jabs-midwives