In the 2025/26 season, 7.7% of the population got a flu vaccine, compared with 8.3% in 2003/04.
Health
- The most common cause of road deaths in 2024 was speeding (driving too fast for the conditions): 30 of 68 people killed.
- In 2024, falls killed 9.0 times as many people as transport accidents: 838 deaths compared with 93.
- The most prescribed medicines in 2025 were painkillers and fever reducers: 1,666,407 of 21,631,390 prescriptions.
- 14,401 injuries at work were reported in 2025, 23 of them fatal; in 2008 there were 25,036.