Only 10% of British health staff will take swine flu jabs...

Patients could be put at risk because as few as 10 per cent of NHS staff may volunteer to have the swine flu vaccine, managers have warned.

Doctors and nurses are shunning the jab because they believe the virus is mild and the chances of their getting the disease are slim.

But NHS bosses say their reluctance could lead to needless deaths during the expected second wave of the disease as staff pass the virus on to frail patients and those with compromised immune systems.

And they say that if staff are unprotected from another onslaught of the bug, there could be massive sickness rates which would lead to cancelled operations.

The situation has forced the Department of Health to write to all NHS organisations to order them to ensure that frontline staff get immunised against the disease.

Concern has been growing about the reluctance of NHS staff to volunteer to have the vaccine. Many are concerned the jab has not been sufficiently tested. More...

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