HC Deb 01 February 2000 vol 343 c556W
22. Sir Sydney Chapman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement about the impact of the recent flu outbreak on the NHS. [106259]

Yvette Cooper

The incidence of flu, along with other acute respiratory illness, has put very real pressure on NHS services this winter, but the NHS is dealing with these pressures. The peaks in demand are being managed better than previously, with NHS staff—in both primary care and the hospitals sector—working well to manage the current pressures.