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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: That is a lovely way to end this part of the meeting. Let us not curse the darkness. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee and sharing their stories. As I said at the beginning of the meeting, I have a personal involvement and I have been on the journey. I had a near-death experience and people are never the same afterwards. I did not realise that for every hour of having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: The committee will now resume its consideration of sepsis awareness, prevention and associated services. I am pleased to welcome from the HSE Dr. Colm Henry, chief clinical officer, Dr. Orla Healy, national clinical director for quality and patient safety, Dr. Michael O'Dwyer, national clinical lead for the sepsis programme, and Dr. Ciara Martin, national clinical adviser and group lead for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Dr. Henry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: Is Deputy Durkan or Deputy Colm Burke next?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: Does the Deputy want to let the witnesses respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: The Deputy needs to give witnesses a chance to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Dr. Martin. I have to move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: I will give Deputy Crowe extra time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: It is a fair point if it was a question of ticking boxes, bearing in mind the number of people who are getting sepsis. Maybe that is something we can follow up on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: I have a few questions. A question was asked about blood tests and if sepsis would show up on a blood test. People are looking for simple steps that can be taken with sepsis. The witnesses might expand on what they said earlier on that. I know there are all sorts of challenges around it but some families have said to me that if a simple blood test had been carried out early on then that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: Something which came up in the previous session and which we talk about all the time is a greater role for pharmacies. I think we are all in favour of that. Do the witnesses see that as an area we could concentrate on in this strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: Dr. Henry stated that 1,600 GPs attended the webinar on sepsis. It is quite a high number and that is positive. How many GPs do we have that did not attend? I do not want to be negative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: The other issue concerned the different approaches. This is a concern that if we have a protocol it should be the same approach. We are talking about different approaches in relation to acute hospitals and not necessarily just that but also other health settings. Is that part of the protocol the HSE is looking to roll out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: Dr. Henry said the quick reference guide to GPs' recognition and treatment of sepsis in adults will be ready for implementation in quarter 2 2024. I do not wish to put him on the spot but is it possible to fast-forward that roll-out? He might come back to us on that or answer now, given the urgency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: I call Deputy Browne who is Cathaoirleach of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: I am conscious that there is a public information element to this in the symptoms that people get. These include low blood pressure, fever and increased heart rate. Further, Lil Red’s Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign talks about shivering fever, feeling very cold, extreme pain or discomfort, pale or discoloured skin, being sleepy and difficult to rouse, being confused, feeling like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: The committee will refer it back to our next meeting. Dr. Henry may be available to do that meeting. The families want to hear we will work collectively in a positive manner to come up with solutions to this crisis affecting so many people in the past and, no doubt, the future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: It was a good exchange of ideas. Many things came out of this meeting. I hope we can inject greater urgency into it. I thank the families and organisations that came in, as well as the representatives of the HSE for their assistance to the committee on this important matter. It is useful for people. There is a public element to this.

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: The number of dead and injured in Gaza is so large that it almost defies our ability to comprehend. There are 11,180 dead, 4,609 of whom are children and 3,900 of whom are children. There are 28,200 injured and 2,700 trapped in rubble. By the time this debate ends, 12 more children will have been killed. Children are being wiped out by the murderous Israeli military, which is hell-bent on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (14 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason behind the delay in the scoping inquiry into historic abuse at a school (details supplied); if she will give a commitment that the report's deadline of June 2024 will be held to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49496/23]