# 4691
At 182 pages and released within the past few hours, I haven’t even begun to read it. There is a lot here to absorb. The report, The 2009 Influenza Pandemic, is a 1 Mb PDF File and is now available to download.
The executive summary lists 28 recommendations which you can find summarized on the GemaTEch Website.
28 Recommendations From Government’s Official Pandemic Review
At 11am today the government published an Independent Review of the UK response to the 2009 influenza (swine flu) pandemic.
SKY News has a report on their website on the costs of the pandemic as listed in this report.
While costly, the authors are calling it a `proportionate response’.
Follow the link to read it in its entirety.
£1.2bn Cost Of Swine Flu Pandemic Revealed
1:55pm UK, Thursday July 01, 2010
Ruth Barnett, Sky News Online
Britain spent more than £1.2bn tackling the swine flu pandemic but the response was proportionate, an independent review has concluded.
The report by Dame Deirdre Hine, a former chief medical officer for Wales, concluded that the UK's response to the outbreak was "effective".
However, she said Britain had been left with vaccines against the H1N1 virus which it did not need, due to the lack of flexibility in the contracts the Government signed.
- I think we have got to set these figures, which seem enormous, against the potential for saving lives. - Report author Dame Deirdre Hine
