The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) advocates strongly that once standard measures to reduce Emergency Department overcrowding fail HSE managers should institute the Full Capacity Protocol as was done with ‘such success’ in Limerick this week. Download the press release. On Tuesday 1st December 2009, in the face of increasingly unsafe and overcrowded conditions [...]
Pharmacists around Ireland should get the swine flu vaccine as soon as possible, the head of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) said yesterday (December 1). Dr Ambrose McLoughlin, Registrar and CEO of the PSI, urged pharmacists and their staff to avail of the vaccine immediately. “Clearly, as health practitioners at the front line, they [...]
Approximately 17,000 people were infected with swine flu last week, down from about 27,000 a week earlier, the HSE has confirmed. About 4 per cent of the Irish population has now been infected with the H1N1 virus, said Dr Darina O’Flanagan, Director of Health Protection Surveillance Centre. Dr Joan Gilvarry of the Irish Medicines Board [...]
The HSE has said that HSE pandemic vaccination clinics have now commenced inviting children from six months to under five years of age, and people aged 65 years and over, to be vaccinated against swine flu. Vaccination of the initial at risk groups is nearing completion. These included pregnant women and people aged under 65 [...]
The HSE has launched the Health Services Intercultural Guide, which was developed under the HSE National Intercultural Health Strategy 2007 – 2012 in response to the needs of diverse religious communities and cultures in healthcare settings. From the press release: Representatives of different religious and cultural groups who also contributed to the strategy attended the [...]
A review of emergency departments and pre-hospital emergency care in Cork and Kerry has been published by the HSE South today. The review contains recommendations on how to operate emergency departments and pre-hospital emergency care at all acute hospitals in the region, including Bantry General Hospital (BGH) and the West Cork area. From the press [...]
Two doses of Pandemrix should be given to children aged six months to 12 years, and two doses should also be given to all those 13 and over who are immunocompromised, the HSE has stated. Following confusion among GPs, the HSE issued clarification on whether one or two doses of pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine should [...]
A leading neuroscientist has been appointed Professor of Physiology at the new Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS) at the University of Limerick. Professor Billy O’Connor, in a lecture that coincided with his appointment, explained what makes the brain work and considered to find explanation “in our heads” for such human states as happiness, creativity and [...]
Most of those who have died from swine flu so far in Ireland were aged over-45, despite the widely reported view that the disease would worst affect younger people. Nobody aged 0-four or 25-34 has died. Four deaths were among those aged 55-64, two deaths were among those aged over 65 and another two deaths [...]
Co-administering doses of both the swine flu and the annual seasonal flu vaccines in separate arms induces a strong response in adults for both the H1N1 pandemic vaccine as well as the seasonal vaccine, according to new research. Results were released today (November 9) on a clinical trial assessing the administration of one of the [...]
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