If you feel that you may be suffering from FLU symptoms (as described below), you will need to contact the Flu service. You can do this as follows:

Via the website at www.direct.gov.uk/pandemicflu

Via the telephone number which is 0800 1 513 100
or 0800 1 513 200 (Textphone)

As swine flu spreads, it is important to be able to recognise its symptoms. People who have two of the following symptoms and a temperature of 38° C and above or feels hot may have swine flu.

The typical symptoms are:

• sudden fever (a high body temperature of 38C/100.4F or above), and sudden cough.

Other symptoms may include:

• headache,
• tiredness,
• chills,
• aching muscles,
• limb or joint pain,
• diarrhoea or stomach upset,
• sore throat,
• runny nose,
• sneezing,
• loss of appetite.

Anyone who suspects they have swine flu is advised not to come to Burton Croft Surgery or A&E, unless they fall into the following categories:

• they have a serious underlying illness;
• they are pregnant;
• they have a sick child under one year old;
• their condition suddenly gets much worse; or
• if their condition is still getting worse after 7 days (5 for a child).

If you fall into any of these categories, then please call us so we can arrange for a GP or the Trainee Nurse Practitioner to call you back to discuss your symptoms.
The number for the surgery is 0844 815 1515.