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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: ...aspects of it. What are the actual rules? There must be a list of rules somewhere on when people can use headed paper and when then cannot. Do we have any news on the roll-out of the male HPV vaccine? Do we have any new data on the uptake? We were up at 61% recently. Yesterday in the Chamber, Deputy Clare Daly raised the case of the lady who died during an intervention into an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Simon Harris: ...eligibility which was the right decision. For children with cancer, there is automatic eligibility. I will ask the director general to comment on that in a moment. Regarding the issue of the HPV vaccine for boys, as the committee will be aware, I have asked HIQA to carry out a health technology assessment, HTA. We will know the final outcome of that by the autumn. We may begin to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Minister for his answers. With regard to the HPV vaccine, I welcome the fact that HIQA is due to report by the autumn. Some 30,000 boys will not be vaccinated this year, because of the loss. I could hazard a guess that it will probably be September 2019 before we seek to start vaccinating. Perhaps I am wrong; perhaps it will be six months earlier. While we are on a roll here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Simon Harris: .... I am proud of the work of all the clinicians who have supported this as well. We have managed to do something that other countries have not managed to do, that is, reverse a concerning trend in HPV prevalence. We need to continue on that track. There can be no room for complacency. We continually need to call out those who profess to be medical experts, but who are not, and who put...

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