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GPs should offer vaccine to all women of childbearing age

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.

“It is not very well understood but three to six weeks after a peak in influenza there is a peak in meningococcal disease. Obviously immunity is down in the population. It goes back to this thing, if you have had the flu you say your immunity is down. We have always pooh-poohed that,” she said.

Posted in General Practice on 04 December 2009
Tags: pandemic, women's health