Results 1-7 of 7 for flu segment:8545915
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)
Róisín Shortall: .... Unfortunately, progress has been quite slow since then but Mr. Twomey was certainly putting it into practice. At that time, I recall trying to get approval for pharmacists to provide the flu vaccination. I remember being shocked at the resistance there was to that. That seemed to be a no-brainer but there was resistance. This kind of thing is often regarded as business and losing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)
Ms Kathy Maher: I thank the Deputy for her kind words about the flu vaccine. I think I am old enough to have been around in 2011 or 2012 when we were trying to get the flu vaccine provision across the line for community pharmacies. It has been a really good example of how, when community pharmacies get involved in a scheme or project that we deliver to the nth degree for the benefit of our...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)
...schedule 8 of the medicinal products control and supply regulations. That is where there are certain prescription-only products we can supply and-or administer. That is how pharmacists deliver flu, pneumococcal, shingles and Covid vaccines but also administer certain emergency medications, for example, Naloxone for somebody having an overdose or Glucon for somebody having a diabetic...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)
..., it is not in a digital format. Regarding GPs, there is a digital transfer of prescriptions via Healthmail but that is an e-mail system. We will inform a GP, for example, if we have given a flu vaccination and that is through another digital system. There are lots of systems we interact with. We speak with colleagues in hospital, as a prescription may need to be queried. One makes an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)
Martin Conway: Roughly how many pharmacies provide the flu vaccine?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)
Dr. Susan O'Dwyer: Pharmacists have demonstrated themselves to be very able and competent in this field. We deliver about 30% of the total flu vaccinations in the country. We have delivered 11% of the Covid vaccinations. Now that we are in a more business-as-usual season, we are at 25% or 26%. I should not be quoted on those exact figures, but they are in that region. Pharmacists are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)
...only when presented with a prescription with a written instruction from a doctor that says "please administer this vaccine." In that situation it can be done. However, it is not the same as a flu vaccine. If one wants to get a flu vaccine from a pharmacy, one can walk in and get it. HPV is not included in that Schedule, but we see that as a vaccine that could definitely be added to the...