Minister for Health Simon Harris has announced the establishment of an expert panel to examine how nursing homes should deal with Covid-19.Minister Harris said the panel would examine national and international measures in response to Covid-19 as well as emerging best practice.
He said this was in light of the expected ongoing risk of the disease and the impact on nursing homes for up to 18 months.In a statement, Mr Harris said the challenges in the nursing-home sector remained an absolute priority for him in the overall response to Covid-19. He said the Government had to continue to plan appropriately to meet these challenges into the foreseeable future. The panel will be chaired by Professor Cecily Kelleher, College Principal, College Of Health And Agricultural Sciences at UCD.
Also on the panel will be retired geriatrician Professor Cillian Twomey, group director of nursing at the RCSI hospital group, Petrina Donnelly, and former nurse and patient advocate Bridget Doherty, who will represent the public interest.
SimonHarrisTD Once FGF officially sieze power, They will stop the restrictions
SimonHarrisTD Fair play, our government is being cautious for very good reason, stick to the rules guys🙏
SimonHarrisTD The best practice for him would be to get on a plane & leave this country
SimonHarrisTD 1 Well the fact that you couldn't tolerate any critique of WHO whatsoever Simon and our Government even decided to reward catastrophic failure by throwing even more money at them ,does no t inspire any confidence in any enquiry you wish to make .If you had bothered paying
SimonHarrisTD Backlog of postponed hospital operations could take nearly two years to be cleared Public cancer screening programmes such as BreastCheck and CervicalCheck have been suspended for over ten weeks
SimonHarrisTD HIQA already in place with responsibility but now we are to see the arrival of another quango
SimonHarrisTD TheGreenParty fiannafailparty and FineGael USING COVID to cancel Local Free Recycle Bring Centre city wide. NO VIABLE REASON
SimonHarrisTD Hospitals all over the country are half full at most and they are still refusing to treat people badly in need of help. They continue to have blood on their hands every day this goes on.
SimonHarrisTD It’s a big game of Simon Says he’s on a power trip and loving the spotlight and we’re worse allowing this to go in
SimonHarrisTD International practice on care homes not great....Care home deaths as percentage of total deaths....... Spain 66% Norway 61% (including out of hospital settings) Belgium 51% Sweden 50% France 50% Germany 37% UK 21% Ireland 63%
SimonHarrisTD He’s setting up a panel to sack himself? How noble.
SimonHarrisTD How many of the deceased residents had their advanced care plan updated since March 11th? How many had ‘do not resuscitate’ or ‘not for transfer’ orders put in place since this global health emergency was announced?
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