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HSE Chief @paulreiddublin says NPHET modelling shows that #COVID19 will be with us here in Ireland for longer than had been expected.
Reid: When we look back over the past number of weeks, many of the firefighting responses we've put in place need a more strategic response.
He cites PPE procurement as a big example of this.
He cites PPE procurement as a big example of this.
"Because of the volume that we needed... we had to source overseas what we required. Our provision of PPE normally for a year is €15m, we put an order into China of €208m - we're probably going to double that again."
Big PPE spending to continue throughout #COVID19
Big PPE spending to continue throughout #COVID19
Reid says over the course of the next number of years, he hopes Irish suppliers and producers can be used a lot more.
Reid says the HSE will be able to deliver 100,000 tests per week but says there will have to be a new model.
"The model we have is kind of a warzone model... we need a new model in the future for Ireland with regard to pandemics."
"The model we have is kind of a warzone model... we need a new model in the future for Ireland with regard to pandemics."
Reid says among the future learnings for the HSE is that "we're going to have to breakdown layers of bureaucracy".
In good news from Anne O'Connor: There has been an increase in attendances in our Emergency Departments (still 33% lower than last year).
There have been concerns among medics that people with illness and injury are staying away and not getting the care they need.
There have been concerns among medics that people with illness and injury are staying away and not getting the care they need.
130 private consultants have signed up to work as public consultants for #covid19.
O'Connor: We're working to try to move activity from public to private hospitals
O'Connor: We're working to try to move activity from public to private hospitals
190 total admissions to self-isolation facility in CityWest.
102 discharges from CityWest.
102 discharges from CityWest.
O'Connor: 119 community HSE staff being deployed to nursing homes.
Further 100 acute staff from hospitals also being deployed as "boots on the ground" in those homes.
Further 100 acute staff from hospitals also being deployed as "boots on the ground" in those homes.
O'Connor: 60% of all items of PPE that the HSE has supplied anywhere in the last week has gone directly to nursing homes.
"Significant increase in demand for PPE - particular challenge in the area of masks."
#COVID19
"Significant increase in demand for PPE - particular challenge in the area of masks."
#COVID19
O'Connor says support is being offered to staff in the health system to help them to deal with the trauma and stresses brought about in the past number of weeks.
1,050 approved for temporary staff accommodation.
605 of them are from the private nursing home sector.
605 of them are from the private nursing home sector.
Q&A.
@nicole_gernon asking about staff redeployment and the scale of the challenge in St Mary's in the Phoenix Park.
@nicole_gernon asking about staff redeployment and the scale of the challenge in St Mary's in the Phoenix Park.
HSE express sincere sympathies to everyone affected by #COVID19 at St Mary's.
They don't provide further clarity on case numbers in St Mary's or the number of people who have sadly died.
There will be detailed information from HSE facilities towards the end of the week they say
They don't provide further clarity on case numbers in St Mary's or the number of people who have sadly died.
There will be detailed information from HSE facilities towards the end of the week they say
"Naive to say there would never be tensions between the HSE and the Department of Health... but they are constructive tensions" says Paul Reid.
Paul Reid says work is continuing on 'the app' - pilot of the map to launch in May.
"Good progress... we want to make sure it's reasonably resilient."
"Good progress... we want to make sure it's reasonably resilient."
O'Connor said 75 nursing homes have Red status.
Staff key concern there - so they are priority for redeployment of HSE staff.
Staff key concern there - so they are priority for redeployment of HSE staff.
"There's no evidence to support assertion (that moving patients from hospitals to nursing homes gave rise to a spike of #COVID19)"
Reid responds to @PriscillaLynch - says 37,000 swab tests done last week. 20,000 were in LongTermResidentialCentres.
