Swine flu victim treated in Sweden

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The 26-year-old Scot suffered a rare complication and was flown to Stockholm because no beds were available in the UK for the procedure she needed.

She was admitted to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock last week where she was put on a ventilator because of an extreme reaction to the H1N1 virus, and is now undergoing a highly-specialised procedure known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

This involves circulating the patient's blood outside the body and adding oxygen to it artificially.

ECMO is a relatively new technique that is used when a patient's lungs are functioning very poorly even with ventilation and high levels of oxygen.

The UK has a national ECMO unit in Leicester but all five beds there are currently being used.

However a bed was found in a similar unit in Stockholm and the patient was transferred under pan-European arrangements for sharing such scarce facilities.

Meanwhile, the British Government has admitted that its new website to diagnose people with swine flu has been experiencing "unprecedented demand".

The system, which launched at 3pm on Thursday, was receiving 2,600 hits per second at one point and crashed temporarily within minutes of launching.

Its launch came as new figures showed there were an estimated 100,000 new cases of swine flu last week - around double the 55,000 in the previous week.