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This year’s flu season started earlier than usual and is yet to reach a peak

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England’s chief medical officer said older people are ‘under-served’ when it comes to care and research

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Experts have said that the health secretary’s welcome ambition to end ‘corridor care’ is all-but impossible if the government wants the NHS to make strides on hitting its raft of other targets

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Flu cases are 56 per cent higher than this time last year and 10 times higher than in 2023

Average of 1,717 flu patients in beds last week, up 56% on a year ago, after ‘unusually early’ start to season

This year’s flu season started earlier than usual and is yet to reach a peak.