Welcome to the HPSC website
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) is Ireland's specialist agency for the surveillance of communicable diseases.
HPSC is part of the Health Service Executive and works in partnership with health service providers and sister organisations in Ireland and around the world, to provide the best possible information for the control and prevention of infectious diseases. HPSC strives to protect and improve the health of the Irish population by providing timely information and independent advice, and by carrying out disease surveillance, epidemiological investigation and related research and training.
Epi-Insight
Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2012
- HPSC publishes 2010 annual report
- Fifteen years of Eurosurveillance: 1996-2011
- Clostridium difficile increasingly recognised as a problem in the community
- Amendment to list of notifiable diseases
- Feedback sought on guidelines for the emergency management of injuries
- In Memoriam: Dr Brian P. O’Herlihy
- ECDC seeks applicants for EPIET programme
- Latest HPSC reports
Topics A-Z
Antimicrobial Resistance
Antibiotics, CRE, Enterococci / VRE, MRSA, Pseudomonas, see more topics...
Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Measles, Mumps, Seasonal Influenza, Whooping Cough (Pertussis), see more topics...
Vectorborne Diseases
Lyme Disease, Malaria, West Nile Virus, see more topics...
What’s New?
- ESBL Patient Information Leaflet
- VRE Patient Information Leaflet
- HPSC Annual Report 2010
- Draft for consultation: Guidelines for the Emergency Management of Injuries where there is a risk of transmission of bloodborne and other infectious diseases
- Draft guidelines on the management of viral haemorrhagic fever in Ireland now available for consultation
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