Dr Ed Garratt says flu vaccination rates need to increase to ease the strain on the NHS during winter.
Low flu vaccination rates in parts of the region may have intensified the winter pressures faced by health services, according to a senior NHS boss., said only three out of five people eligible for a jab took it up, fewer than before the pandemic.
SNEE funds all NHS healthcare in Suffolk and north east Essex, including Ipswich and Colchester hospitals, GP surgeries, dentistry and mental health. He said he did not want to see patients being cared for in hospital corridors "normalised for future care". "For people in west Suffolk, they are going to see their diagnostic tests done much more conveniently and quickly," he said.
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