Infectious Disease Screening Requirements for New Entrants to the ROI Sub-Committee

Terms of Reference

1. To review the current guidelines for “Communicable disease screening for asylum seekers” (Department of Health and Children, October 2004)

2. To update and further develop these guidelines to include the health assessment, in relation to infectious diseases, of all entrants to the Irish healthcare system

3. To make recommendations on the implementation of these guidelines including centralised monitoring in HPSC of the outcomes of such screening.

Membership

Dr Aidan O’Hora, HPSC (Chair)

Dr Agnes Bourke, RDO HSE South

PJ Boyle, Balseskin Reception Centre

Anne Brophy, Infection Control

Concepta de Brun, RDO HSE DML

Noel Dowling, Reception and Integration Agency

Dr Sarah Doyle, RCPI Faculty of Public Health

Dr Richard Ennis, ICGP

Margaret Fitzgibbon, Academy of Medical Laboratory Scientists

Dr Paula Gilvarry, Community Health Doctors

Bernard Gloster, RDO HSE West

Dr Lorraine Hickey, HPSC (Medical Secretary)

Prof Sam McConkey, Infectious Disease Society of Ireland

Dr Mary McMahon, IHOPS

Dr Helena Murray, National Immunisation Office

Tonya Myles, CAIRDE

Diane Nurse, HSE- Social Inclusion

Camille Staunton, RDO HSE Dublin NE

Last updated: 26 January 2011