Results 1-10 of 10 for flu speaker:Kate O'Connell

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I will stop Mr. Conlon there because we had this before about ten years ago with the use of the flu vaccination. There was massive pushback from the medical profession to the effect that pharmacists should not be injecting vaccines. When I was studying at undergraduate level 20 years ago, it was never assumed that would be part of a pharmacist's role but we managed it, we upskilled and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...progressing with the pharmacists? The fundamental basis of Sláintecare was need and not ability to pay, and a move towards the community. It must be ten years since pharmacists started doing the flu vaccine. It started off - with no offence intended towards the Chairman - with the question as to how pharmacists might manage and what if some person died or had an anaphylactic...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: In the case of Pandemrix, the emergency, the epidemic or potential epidemic – I believe it was swine flu – the State took on the liability associated with the drug. It had not gone through the trial process. Does the Department have to provide the learning from that experience?

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

Kate O'Connell: ...constantly exposed to the hazards of an acute hospital, it is only natural that they are they will be sicker. There can be efficiencies built in with Warfarin as for haemochromotosis. Giving the flu vaccine in pharmacies worked well. I was among the first tranche of pharmacists doing that eight or nine years ago. The morning after pill has worked and any interventions the Chairman and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Kate O'Connell: ...are being expanded. If we cast our minds back to the expansion of the vaccination programme into community pharmacies, the argument was made that people would be having anaphylactic reactions to flu vaccines left, right and centre. People asked what the pharmacists would do when that happened. When I was training, the chance of that happening was one in 1 million and now it is one in 2...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: When would Mr. O'Brien expect to have data? I am not trying to be difficult but I know that when a pharmacist gives the flu vaccine, he or she enters the person's PPS number so that the doctor will know whether it has been given. It is there in a system. I can understand that we need a period of time to collect a data set, but once a period of time has elapsed I cannot see how it would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaccination Programme: Discussion (11 May 2017)

Kate O'Connell: ...in the day. I come from a family of health care professionals. As someone who works in the community and who was among the first batch of pharmacists trained for the initial roll-out of the influenza vaccine, I was shocked when I entered the Dáil last year at the difference between what I perceived to be the understanding of vaccination and immunisation, and the emails and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implcations for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Kate O'Connell: ...of knowing exactly what was going to happen. Can the Department update the committee on the latest situation in this regard? I have been thinking about the foot and mouth outbreak, swine flu and various other public health issues. My father worked in the Department of agriculture during the past two outbreaks of foot and mouth disease and he told me about the amount of work that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: ...Eve dealing with people. Is there anything we could do in the view of any of the witnesses to try to improve matters next year? Do we need to examine buffers? This year we had a strain of flu that was particularly difficult for older people so how could we predict that? Taking that to a natural conclusion, what would happen if there was a massive disaster? How would it leave trained...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Kate O'Connell: ...our eyes opened, given that we see operations cancelled due to lack of beds and escalating numbers of people on trolleys, and that we hope to God we will get a bad frost so we do not have a major flu epidemic. None of us needed to join this committee to have our eyes opened unless we had been living under our beds.