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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: ...we renegotiate the finer details of the GP contract, we need to rely less on emergency departments. Even nursing homes can over-rely on the emergency department. We need to ensure healthcare workers receive the flu vaccine to avoid outbreaks of flu. The Deputy is a big supporter of this. Flu outbreaks cause chaos in emergency departments at peak times. We intend to implement...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: ...incredible efforts to get to work. I accept the Deputy's point but we must have contingency planning for particularly extreme events, which cannot be quantified year on year. In regard to the flu vaccine for healthcare staff, there has been renewed effort this year to encourage staff to get this vaccine. We cannot stress enough the importance of healthcare staff getting this...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: No, they are not compulsory. A flu epidemic is especially problematic for elderly people in healthcare settings, whether acute hospitals or nursing homes. A nursing home could have to send up to ten of its residents into an accident emergency department at the height of the Christmas period and during bad weather conditions. Winter planning is important on many levels. It provides an...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Jim Daly: .... The Minister has spoken about this regularly in the past couple of weeks. The measures are being taken with a view to helping older and more vulnerable people. The Deputy mentioned the flu vaccine. I also spoke about it earlier in the debate. We have to make sure more health workers are taking the vaccine to prevent outbreaks. I referenced the fact that in some hospitals in New...

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (15 Nov 2017)

Jim Daly: ...and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, to name but a few, are showing a reduction in trolley numbers ranging from 30% to 50% as compared to the same period in 2016.This performance should be acknowledged. Another issue raised was infection prevention and control of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae, CPE, and flu.Our system is working hard to grapple with the challenge of infection...

Topical Issue Debate: Disease Incidence (27 Sep 2017)

Jim Daly: ...have no symptoms at all. The most common noticeable evidence of infection is a rash called erythema migrans- a red, raised skin rash, often called a bulls-eye rash. People can also complain of flu-like symptoms such as headache, sore throat, neck stiffness, fever, muscle aches and general fatigue. Lyme disease is diagnosed by medical history and physical examination. The infection is...

Written Answers — Community Pharmacy Services: Community Pharmacy Services (24 Apr 2012)

Jim Daly: Question 693: To ask the Minister for Health the reason qualified assistants working in pharmacies were disqualified from administering the flu vaccines despite having been advised to take up training by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19901/12]