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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Colm Burke: .... I will open with the issue of long-term planning. I raised the matter yesterday at the private meeting about the winter plan for last year when we had significant challenges dealing with the flu. My understanding is that the Department has now requested HIQA to examine the roll-out of enhanced flu vaccination. When is the health technology assessment, HTA, report going to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Mr. Bernard Gloster: I might let Dr. Henry talk about the supply of the vaccine. I do not have a timeline for any HIQA assessment on that issue. The formulation of the flu vaccine, based on the previous year's evidence, is usually what dictates the determination of the supply rather than necessarily any readiness on our part. Dr. Henry might want to give Deputy Burke clarity on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

...when we learned about more effective ways, primarily through the GP network, of administering the vaccine. Drawing on the past couple of years, if there was one disappointing aspect of the flu vaccine roll-out, it was the uptake of the live, attenuated influenza vaccine, LAIV, among children. We are reviewing the mode of administration of that now, which is primarily through GPs, to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Dr. Colm Henry: There is not much. As the Chairman will be aware, in January we had a confluence of three viruses, including RSV, to which he referred. For the second year running, it hit much higher levels than it had done in the previous five or six years. There were also influenza and, of course, Covid-19, and all three peaked around the same time for a two- or three-week period, which...