This week NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard, unveiling the State Government’s flu strategy, said that health professionals – including “medical staff, nurses, doctors, allied health staff” – working in the state’s most vulnerable hospital wards will receive a compulsory flu shot. These wards include neonatal, cancer and intensive care wards. The move sparked a call from the Immunisation Coalition to extend compulsory flu shots outside NSW and across all health workers. The Coalition says that health care workers have a duty of care to protect vulnerable patients from the threat of flu.
