The number of Britons who have died after contracting swine flu has almost doubled in two days to 14, officials said yesterday. London is days away from an epidemic with the West Midlands not far behind.
Britain has the third highest number of confirmed cases of the virus in the world, just behind Mexico - where the outbreak began. As the shocking figures were released a leaked internal memo warned last night that the NHS is not ready to deal with a swine flu epidemic because of 'muddled' emergency plans and time-wasting bureaucracy.
A senior trust executive condemned some crisis measures as 'contradictory' and 'a complete waste of time'.
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