The chair of the Royal College of GPs in Wales has said doctors and health officials "don't really know" where the Strep A outbreak sweeping the UK will go. Dr Rowena Christmas, who is also a GP in Monmouthshire, added that GPs will have a "lower threshold" for prescribing antibiotics and sending children to hospital over the next few weeks.
Her comments come after seven children have died in recent months after contracting the invasive bacterial infection - six of those being children aged under 13 in England, and seven-year-old Hanna Roap in Wales, who was a pupil at Victoria Primary School in Penarth.
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales on Monday morning, Dr Christmas said: "All of us GPs and children's doctors and doctors in emergency departments have been sent an alert this morning from the UK Health Security Agency. It's really important we notify public health if we suspect a case.
