GP Out-of-Hours surveillance system

The Department of Public Health in HSE-North East is collating national data on calls to nine of thirteen GP Out-of-Hours services in Ireland. Clinical details from all calls are recorded. Records with clinical symptoms reported as flu or influenza are extracted for analysis. This information may act as an early indicator of increased influenza-like illness (ILI) activity in the community. However, data are self-reported by callers and are not based on coded influenza diagnoses. These data are reported in the weekly influenza surveillance report.

Last updated: 30 August 2018