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HIQA recommends measures to encourage health staff vaccination

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The Health Information and Quality Authority has recommended a series of measures to encourage Covid-19 vaccination uptake among health staff, including mandatory vaccination as a last measure to be considered.

The advice to National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) says that another option would be the redeployment of staff to lower risk areas, if they do not avail of a vaccination.

HIQA has proposed a progressive series of measures, starting with one-to-one conversations, to extra testing and personal protective equipment, to redeployment, and using mandatory vaccination as a last step.

Its report on the issue says that only Italy currently has a national policy of mandatory vaccination for health staff. The UK has guidance on the

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