Flu Pandemic

[andyb]

Is anyone else having to write contingency plans for their dept/company incase of a flu pandemic this winter? The place where I work is writing contingency plans hundreds of pages long and having numerous meetings. I can't work out whether someone is seriously over-reacting or they know something we don't?!!:-$ (I work in a hospital):shaking:

[Warthog]

Well I'd say it is over-reacting usually, but seeing as you work in a hospital, they have to be prepared for such things. If you worked in Toys 'R' Us or something I don't think that needs to ever be mentioned.

[andyb]

Well I'd say it is over-reacting usually, but seeing as you work in a hospital, they have to be prepared for such things. If you worked in Toys 'R' Us or something I don't think that needs to ever be mentioned.

I think they're over-reacting too but they're planning for more than half of the workforce being off for upto six weeks with flu, then on top of that the hospital will have a lot more patients than usual due to the pandemic so we're shafted both ways!

[diamond]

Were all having the flu jab next week.

[andyb]

Were all having the flu jab next week.

I've already had mine, made me feel ill that night!:p Do you mean nxt weds or at work?

[gettin2dizzy]

wow! how old are you guys?!

[andyb]

wow! how old are you guys?!

It's because we're special!!!:cool: I'm only 25 but as I work in a hospital I can get it done anyway as I have a higher risk of getting it (or something like that)

[sarah]

I had a flu jab at work too.

[diamond]

It's because i work for the Health Protection Agency, I'm jabbed for all sorts of stuff.

[sarah]

I don't do anything remotely important but work offer free flu jabs so it seemed silly to not have one.

[Ed]

But if everyone has flu then who's going to implement the contingency plan:confused:

[Viney]

Is anyone else having to write contingency plans for their dept/company incase of a flu pandemic this winter? The place where I work is writing contingency plans hundreds of pages long and having numerous meetings. I can't work out whether someone is seriously over-reacting or they know something we don't?!!:-$ (I work in a hospital):shaking:
Well, the NHS has to spend millions of pounds somehow.

Mate had the Flu jab 3 times, he still gets the flu, and not man flu either... poor sod.

Its scare mongering as usual.

[andyb]

But if everyone has flu then who's going to implement the contingency plan:confused:

Thats what I want to know! They're going to take 'managers' who used to be nurses and have kept up their skills etc and put them back into wards and stuff liek that. If it actually happens its going to be chaos.

Like Viney said though, it seems like a huge waste of money!:-$

[northwind]

When man flu kills off the rest of the population, us vaccinated elite will build utopia :D

[Dan]

I work for an organisation who will be heavily involved in the care of victims and distribution of the Tamiflu doses to the community...

Although the plans may sound overblown, if you'd seen some of the documents I've had to go through you'd be more worried than you are now.

[Biker Biggles]

God help us.If they put managers who used to be nurses back on the wards there really will be a disaster.The only reason they promoted most of them in the first place was to get them away from patients as they were so useless.
Managers===The bane of modern life.

[andyb]

I work for an organisation who will be heavily involved in the care of victims and distribution of the Tamiflu doses to the community...

Although the plans may sound overblown, if you'd seen some of the documents I've had to go through you'd be more worried than you are now.

SO you think there may be an outbreak this winter? We've had to fill in questionnaires asking if we could still get to work etc if family members became ill.

[Defender]

Perhaps some of the 'Managers' need to be back on the wards full time.

[metalmonkey]

Well I got a free flu jab from so I got it, though I did feel a bit rubbish the next day......well if I get the flu then I will be like well I got jab what else was I supposed to do?

Mangers eh, they really are a pain in the **** aren't they line them up use mini guns its the only way be sure:smt067they are like polticans and lawyers serve only to wind people up:rolleyes:

[Dan]

SO you think there may be an outbreak this winter? We've had to fill in questionnaires asking if we could still get to work etc if family members became ill.

Put it like this, the Public Health people for all seven of the PCTs I'm involved with all sing the same song - 'It's not a case of if, it's a case of when'.

I'm sure we'll see the usual winter 'flu outbreak this year, but that's not really anything unusual - most of the really concentrated planning is going into the bird 'flu situation - dealing with a minimum 25% employee sickness rate, overflowing mortuaries, transport breakdown, etc.

Since our organisation will be involved in transporting Tamiflu around, we're even having to consider the security implications, like lockboxes in vehicles to which drivers don't have access, etc etc.

[Defender]

Bird Flu?

Does the Government know something the World Health Organisation doesn't?

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/

[Dan]

Bird Flu?

Does the Government know something the World Health Organisation doesn't?

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/

Would you rather we planned, perhaps pointlessly, for the possible, or waited until it became a probable? :D

[K]

I had flu earlier this year. Thought I was just feeling really crappy and having a real bad cold ontop of everything else - but no. Nice little trip in an ambulance to A&E finally convinced me that I had got flu... and had also developed a nice touch of pneumonia in one of my lungs too.

Niiiice...


... NOT! :roll:


Got a jab last week - bruised my arm for a couple of days but that was it.