26 June 2017 - NICE is calling for people who are eligible for free flu vaccination to be offered it at every opportunity.
New draft guidance from NICE highlights the need to educate people that having a flu vaccination each year is the single best way of protecting against catching or spreading flu.
In the Last flu season, which ran from October 2016 until March this year, 953 people were admitted to intensive care units with confirmed cases of the flu. Of those, 107 people died.