A night in a luxury hotel is being used to entice staff at the Taranaki District Health Board to get a flu shot.
The DHB has declared itself a 'Fortress' against winter ailments.
Only about 50 percent of its workers have been vaccinated so far and close to 200 kaimahi are off sick on any one day - compounding existing staff shortages.
Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin has more