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Responding to the swine flu threat

By Darshna Soni

Updated on 07 July 2009

Has the public managed to keep up with changes in official policy as the incidence of swine flu increases?

Swine flu testing (credit: Reuters)

The government's response to the growing number of swine flu cases has developed as the virus's spread gathers pace.

But have the public kept up with the changes in policy and what it means to them?

In the West Midlands, an NHS director has criticised the Health Protection Agency for its "inconsistent and confused treatment policy", and the local MP has said advice is not reaching parts of the community.

For Channel 4 News, Darshna Soni went to Birmingham to talk to the professionals and victims in the city at the centre of the country's largest swine flu outbreak.

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