Ambulance service creates symptoms checker to help Milton Keynes residents differentiate between Covid-19, a cold, and the flu
There has been a 'significant' increase in calls to the ambulance service over the last two weeks across Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire, particularly from parents worried about whether their children's symptoms are a cold, flu or Covid-19.
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As a result, the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s (SCAS) NHS 111 has developed a symptoms checker which highlights the most common symptoms of coronavirus, the common cold and the flu, which also start to become prevalent at this time of year.
Claire Ward-Jackson, from SCAS, said: “The symptoms checker uses information from Public Health England, the World Health Organisation and the Centre for Disease Control, to give individuals a valuable and trusted reference guide as a ‘first check’ if they’re unsure whether their children’s or their own symptoms indicate a common cold, influenza or Covid-19.”
Patients can also get more information and check their symptoms online at 111.nhs.uk.