Intent: Provide information in relation to COVID-19 vaccine supply and manufacturing
Details: Supply of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine including Ireland volumes; expansion of manufacturing capacity to include Grange Castle site and Pfizer colleague vaccination programme
Intent: Accelerate prison vaccination roll-out so that Ireland meets its obligations and duties to people detained.::Outline the importance of prison vaccination programme to the protection and promotion of wider public health.::Emphasise importance of early vaccine roll-out to minimise harms to physical and mental health of ongoing restrictions.::Advocate for the transfer of responsibility for prison healthcare to the national health service.
Details: Covid-19 vaccine roll out in prisons
Intent: Greater and more systematic patient involvement and public transparency on the negotiation process
Details: Letter to Dept. of Health regarding the negotiations with IPHA re innovative medicines
Intent: To have issues relating to workforce planning in the nursing home sector adequately addressed as the sector faces the challenges presented by Covid-19 pandemic. There is a severe shortage of Healthcare Assistants in the nursing home and broader healthcare sector and requirement presents to remove the role from the Ineligible Categories of Employment Listing on a restricted basis. Furthermore, necessity to implement long-term workforce plan for health services to meet growth in requirement
Details: Correspondence with Department of Health officials re workforce planning concerns in nursing home sector, exacerbated by Covid-19 pandemic.
