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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

...through GPs how often we use antibiotics and whether usage is going up or down. We have seen in recent years a drop-off in those resistant bugs such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, and vancomycin-resistant enterococci, VRE, and others through more prudent use of antibiotics. The message we give is we want to increase awareness of sepsis and we want early...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: ...given the amount of protection against infection and so on. For a long time, particularly within the health system and in hospitals but not exclusively so, there were outbreaks of diseases like MRSA and so on. There has also been criticism in recent times in respect of the amount of sepsis and the take-up in respect of that. We had a group in last week who referred to a 75% reinfection...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...something the public gets, in that we do not want inappropriate, widespread use of antibiotics, because that encourages resistance and hospital-acquired infections such as Clostridium difficile, MRSA and all of those. We wish to twin that with a message of there being some people whose cases begin as infection, but culminate in a much more serious and common condition called sepsis....

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: For example, how many reported incidents were there of people catching MRSA or clostridium difficile or similarly highly infectious diseases? How many of the nursing staff complained about cross-infection within the unit? We heard a presentation from the community. Whoever made this decision, and I am not blaming or pointing fingers at anybody, made the decision to close down a community...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff (15 Nov 2022)

Thomas Gould: ...to be done. The levels of cleaning and infection control remain higher than they had been before. We have learned a lot from Covid-19 and many of the lessons are here to stay because they are dealing with Covid-19, MRSA and other infectious diseases. This extra work being done places a heavier burden on the housekeepers who are expected to follow new protocols and to work to a new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

...managed as category three or four. Zones B and C are still Covid pathways. Patients who have any symptoms or signs of Covid, or who have any risk of infectious disease, be that CPE, C. diff, or MRSA, are all in zones B and C. When the inspectors entered, they saw 49 or 50 trolleys, as well as the cubicles at capacity. Those patients who required isolation were in the cubicles and the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

David Cullinane: ...not been, so at the moment there is no support. Of course the Minister can talk about the merit of a scheme but we have similar schemes in place for, for example, front-line workers who contract MRSA, or in the past contracted TB, or blood-spread illnesses and a whole range of different risks front-line workers must take when they go into work. Covid is an occupational hazard and there...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (16 Jun 2022) See 8 other results from this answer

David Cullinane: ...for Health the number of claims that have been lodged in respect of hospital acquired infections from 2019 to date, broken down by month, by hospital and by infection type for example, Covid, MRSA, CPE and so on, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31658/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (16 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: 509. To ask the Minister for Health if a patient has a right to request an MRSA swab upon admission to hospital or prior to a surgical procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31671/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (16 Jun 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

David Cullinane: ...contracted a hospital acquired infection as a result of being in a hospital ward from 2019 to date, broken down by month, by hospital, by hospital group and by infection type for example, Covid, MRSA, CPE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31676/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (16 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: ...a hospital acquired infection as a result of being in an intensive care unit bed from 2019 to date broken down by month, by hospital, by hospital group and by infection type for example, Covid, MRSA, CPE and so on, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31680/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Jun 2022)

David Cullinane: ...ward to a single isolation room bed; the number of patients infected who remained in a hospital ward, broken down by month, by hospital, by hospital group, and by infection type for example, Covid, MRSA, CPE and so on, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31681/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (16 Jun 2022) See 4 other results from this answer

David Cullinane: ...the Minister for Health the number of hospital acquired infections recorded in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022 by hospital, hospital group and infection type for example Covid, MRSA, CPE and so on, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31703/22]

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: .... Are we still going to bash all the rest, the good ones, forever? These are good people that have given so much service to educate our people and run the hospitals. When the matrons ran the hospitals they were clean, there was no MRSA and they were run properly, not like the shambles of a health service we have now. It is appalling the way language has been used, the way the Sisters...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (20 Jan 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 493. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRSA cases reported to the HSE in each hospital in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2341/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in Acute and Community Care Settings: Discussion (21 Oct 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

John Lahart: Does it apply to MRSA or mmsA?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

...system. The initial guidance that was used was the influenza guidance, bearing in mind that many nursing homes already manage a number of different infections and outbreaks, including influenza, MRSA, and C. difficile infection. These were the first set of guidelines. There was very early engagement on infection prevention and control. That guidance and interaction between the HSE and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (8 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 1386. To ask the Minister for Health the incidences of MRSA in hospitals for 2019 and to date in 2020 since the outbreak of Covid-19. [22515/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (27 May 2020)

Paul Donnelly: 505. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRSA cases reported to the HSE in hospitals from January to April 2020. [7065/20]