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For just the third time in 80 years, Ash Wednesday and St. Valentine’s Day coincide and it also happens to be National No Smoking Day today 14th of February, 2024.
In reviewing developments throughout 2023 in its services, the HSE’s Haywood Lodge facility in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary has picked out, as one of the highlights, its joining in the implementation of the national “Resist” hand hygiene campaign.
The HSE is advising that the COVID-19 Autumn Winter Booster Programme is wrapping up this week and urges every eligible person to get vaccinated before the programme draws to a close.
The HSE has published its annual updated cost of providing care in its public residential care centres for older people.
In reviewing 2023, staff at in the HSE’s Cashel Residential Older Persons Services recalled one of the year’s highlights which were two Award ceremonies, both being the focus of muchattention in the weeks before Christmas!
Kilkenny was the venue this week for a significant gathering of HSE healthcare professionals focused on psychology services.
The HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre has been notified of the death of an adult with confirmed measles, which took place in a hospital in the Dublin and Midlands Health Region. This is the first confirmed measles case notified in Ireland in 2024.
For the third year running, the Mental Health Commission has recorded a 100% compliance rate in its inspections of the HSE/South East Community Healthcare’s Grangemore residential support facility in Waterford.
Winter respiratory viruses still circulating at high levels despite passing the peak
Osteoporosis, antimicrobial-resistant infections and several types of cancer are among the ailments that will be tackled by seven drugs newly approved by the HSE.
