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Today marks World Patient Safety Day, a day to enhance global understanding of patient safety, increase public engagement in the safety of health care and promote global actions to enhance patient safety and reduce patient harm. This year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has put a particular focus on safe maternal and newborn care, urging all stakeholders to ‘Act now for safe and respectful childbirth!’

February 26, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Paula Brown Preparations for a COVID-19 Hub Vaccination Clinic in Orangeville are now underway. Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (WDG) Public Health in a press release on Monday (Feb. 22) said the public health unit, Dufferin County, and the Town of Orangeville are now working on completing the preparations for the vaccination clinic which will be located at the Alder Recreation Centre. The clinic is expected to open on March 3. “Moving quickly and strategically is essential to getting our region va...

Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE. Photo: Maxwells Photography HSE governing Board seeks update on ethical framework for decision-making in hospitals National Service Plan 2021 for HSE approved by governing Board The Board of the Health Service Executive (HSE) has requested the Chief Clinical Officer, Dr Colm Henry, to write to Dr Vida Hamilton, National Clinical Advisor in acute hospitals, to establish if the ethical framework for decision-making in a pandemic remains of assistance or if a review is required. At the latest meeting of the HSE’s governing board, members noted the ...

Solidarity is key to winning war on Covid-19 Ethics and principles must guide us, says Dr Siobhán O’Sullivan, Chief Bioethics Officer, the Department of Health, and member of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) FAIR PLAY: Our vaccine allocation strategy needs to have equitable treatment at its core. Dr Siobhán O’Sullivan FROM the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the response in Ireland has been anchored in seven key ethical principles: solidarity, fairness, minimising harm, proportionality, reciprocity, privacy and a duty to provide care. In March, 2020, the Department of...