"We've had very high attendances from parents who are worried."

After a rise is Strep A cases over the weekend, BBC Essex speaks to a consultant at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford who says the children's department was overwhelmed with concerned parents.

BBC Essex's Sonia Watson spoke to Dr Krishna Ramkhelawon, the Southend Director of Public Health, and Dr Stephen Hughes who is a consultant in emergency medicine at Broomfield Hospital and a senior lecturer in medicine at Anglia Ruskin University.