Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 17 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed)

Ms Siobhán McArdle:

The planning for the flu vaccine programme has commenced. That is under the governance of our chief clinical officer. Our colleagues in health and well-being are very much involved in rolling it out on two fronts. One is for the target populations. We work very closely with our GP colleagues. For example, over the past winter there was a focus on ensuring that people in the older population took up the flu vaccine. There was a targeted campaign to advertise the flu vaccine and then we worked directly with our GP colleagues-----

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