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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

...committee within the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, RCPI. It has provided advice on immunisation across the ages from infancy to adulthood, on matters such as the human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccination programme and the meningitis and influenza vaccines. NIAC also develops and publishes guidelines for immunisations in Ireland, which are implemented by the HSE and co-ordinated by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: One of the briefings we received today mentioned the HPV vaccine, which is a completely different area but it has been disrupted by the roll-out of this vaccine and the pandemic. Previous contributors have spoken about the utilisation of pharmacies in the roll-out of the Covid vaccine. Perhaps this is a question for NIAC. Does anybody have information on the HPV vaccine catch-up? Could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

Dr. Lucy Jessop: The HPV vaccine is one of a number of vaccines we provide in second level schools. We also provide some vaccinations in primary schools. Early in the pandemic last year, school buildings were closed for quite a number of months so the vaccination programmes had to be paused. However, the school teams worked very hard to catch up on the programmes over the summer through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: At present, the uptake level is 65%. I accept that a point was made in the briefing that it may be about data and data input. If we are looking at low rates of take-up of the HPV vaccine, are we sticking with the provision of the vaccine through the school model? Is there an option to increase availability through a walk-in scenario in pharmacies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

...necessarily know whether a girl had been vaccinated already or where she was on her course. There is also the fact that pharmacists are only allowed to give certain vaccines by law at present and HPV is not one of the vaccines that are allowed. They would need a change in the law and specific training for that so it is not something we need in the short term because I believe we can catch...