Now, children aged six months to five years are to be offered the vaccination from next month.

Nurses would be able to text information such as the number of patients they saw, number of inoculations or tests.

You and your doctor or a travel medicine specialist should decide which vaccinations are appropriate for you.

WHO continues to recommend that health workers be given high priority for early vaccination.

This means that we use an age and risk group based approach in line with most other countries that have seasonal influenza vaccination programmes.