More than a third of hospital staff fail to report getting the flu vaccine

The HSE has set an official target of having a 75% uptake of the flu vaccine by healthcare workers. The vaccination rate for nursing staff was 63.2%.

Flu vaccination levels among healthcare workers in hospitals reduced last winter with more than one in three staff failing to report being inoculated against the infectious disease.

New figures published by the HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) show 64% of more than 69,000 employees working across 47 acute hospitals received the flu vaccine between October and May – down from 71% in the previous winter season.