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HSE CEO Paul Reid

Last night/this morning.

The pay package for the chief executive of the Health Service Executive (HSE), Paul Reid, last year increased to €420,103.

Via BreakingNews:

The increase in Mr Reid’s pay last year comes against the background of the numbers of HSE non-medical staff earning over €100,000 increasing by 27 per cent or 144 from 534 in 2019 to 678 last year due to public sector pay rises.

The FOI figures show that Mr Reid’s 2020 pay package is more than double the pay of the second best paid non-medical staff member at the HSE last year.

Mr Reid’s basic pay of €370,000 is almost substantially higher than the current salary of €211,742 for the office of An Taoiseach.

Mr Reid and the top ten best paid non-medical staff in the HSE — mainly managers — last year shared an aggregate €2m in pay.

Mr Reid commenced his five-year contract for the HSE on May 14th, 2019 and even though the Dubliner worked seven and a half months for the HSE in 2019, he was still the HSE’s best paid non-medical member of staff in 2019 when he received €229,194 made up of basic pay of €201,933 and €27,260 in pension contributions.

HSE boss Paul Reid paid €420,103 in 2020 (BreakingNews)

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Meanwhile…

Last night.

Meanwhile…

Um.

Anyone?

Exclusive: Irish FOI Data-Release Proves Hospitals Were Never Under Strain in 2020 (Freepress.ie)

Top from left: Paul Reid, CEO, HSE; Anne O’Connor, Chief Operations Officer, HSE; Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE; Dr Abigail Collins, Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Public Health Schools’ Lead, HSE at Dr Steevens’ Hospital this aftrnoon

This afternoon.

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin

Weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19.

HSE CEO Paul Reid said that two AstraZeneca deliveries – 64,000 last week and 12,000 this week – have been impacted by delays.

He said the HSE did get some deliveries but they did not meet that volume.

“After next week it should start to balance itself out,” Mr Reid said.

He added that over the course of three weeks, there’s a delivery of about 115,000 doses and they may be 2,000-3,000 short of that commitment.

He said it had a delivery of 36,000 on 2 March, is due 57,600 on 9 March, and 21,600 on 12 March.

Meanwhile…

Speaking in the Dáil, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said he has asked the High-Level Taskforce on Covid-19 Vaccination to examine the possibility of seeking extra vaccine supplies outside of the EU arrangement.

He said this would be done in parallel with the EU process, if it happens at all.

Meanwhile….

The Department of Health has said that Ireland is currently above the EU average, with around 3% of the population fully vaccinated, and 6% of the population having received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose. The department has said that 8.8 doses per 100 people have been administered so far.

‘Significant issues’ with vaccination delivery this week – HSE (RTÉ)

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HSE CEO Paul Reid at Dr Steevens’ Hospital for the weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19.

This afternoon.

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.

Meanwhile…

NPHET has told the Government that it will become increasingly difficult to maintain the level of suppression of Covid-19 that has been achieved since the New Year.

Dr Tony Holohan advised the Minister for Health that NPHET expects a large number of additional deaths from the virus in the coming weeks.

In its letter to Stephen Donnelly on 21 January, NPHET said the country remains in a very vulnerable position despite great progress in recent weeks.

It warned that “we will all find it challenging to maintain the very low levels of social contact and adherence to social distancing and hygiene measures required to maintain suppression“.

NPHET concerns over maintaining level of virus suppression (RTÉ)

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Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE at Dr Steevens’ Hospital for the weekly HSE operational update yesterday

This morning.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE said it is tragic to be talking about school closures again and no one wants to see this protracted because of what children experienced during the first lockdown.

However, he said, transmission levels are currently ten times what they were in early December.

He said this needs to reduce to a much lower level “before we can add to additional risk by the mixing of crowds at school settings”…

Transmission levels too high for schools to reopen – Henry (RTÉ)

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Paul Reid, CEO, HSE at Dr Steevens’ Hospital for the weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19 this afternoon

This afternoon.

At the HSE weekly briefing at Dr Steeven’s Hospital Dublin…

The HSE’s chief executive Paul Reid said 69,378 of them were received by frontline healthcare workers and 7,925 were received by people in long term care facilities.

He said said Ireland has received 152,100 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to date, along with 3,600 doses of the Moderna vaccine.

He confirmed that there are 1,792 people with Covid-19 being treated in hospital.

Paul Reid said that equated to over 100% more than at the first peak.

Watch: Weekly HSE briefing on Covid-19 (RTE)

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From left: Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health Dr Tony Holohan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group Professor Philip Nolan and Dr Ronan Glynn at the Department of Health press briefing last night

Last night.

Professor Philip Nolan – chair of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group – told the briefing that at no time since the start of the pandemic in March had it exceeded 1.4 or 1.6 (the R rate)…

Prof Nolan said this was certainly, “at least in part explained by the very high levels of socialisation and social contact” in the last weeks of December

Curbs on sale of alcohol next in line as Holohan says it fuels spread (Independent.ie)

Meanwhile, curbs on the sale of alcohol by forcing off-licences to cut their opening hours may be the next step in the fight against the Covid-19 crisis after chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan warned it is helping to fuel the spread of the virus.

Hic.

Curbs on sale of alcohol next in line as Holohan says it fuels spread (Independent.ie)

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Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE at a press briefing today

This afternoon.

Dr Henry said the HSE had seen an extraordinary growth of infection in the past week, beyond what even the more extreme versions of modelling would have predicted.

Dr Henry said it had not seen this level of concern since the beginning of the pandemic. The five-day rolling average was now 714, up around 100% since last week.

….If the current growth rate continued on its current trajectory, he said there would be 1,000 cases a day by the end of this month and by the end of the first week in January it could be 1,500 cases a day.

But don’t be fearful.

Or stressed.

FIGHT!

Transmission levels of Covid-19 ‘very serious and dangerous’ – HSE

Earlier: Strainuinely

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Meanwhile…

Um.

Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE

This morning.

RTÉ Radio One’s Claire Byrne Live.

Dr Colm Henry, chief clinical officer with the HSE said the options for mixing with family over Christmas are “narrowing” with an increase in Covid-19 infection rates across all age groups.

He wans everybody to reconsider their festive plans. “It’s about reducing close contacts so the virus cannot jump from person to person.”

Asked about the new coronavirus variant in the UK, he said mutations were not uncommon with new viruses. “This strain has taken off in the south east of England in the past four weeks, it appears to be much more transmissible and is better at evading the body’s immune response – but we do not know for sure yet.”

Options ‘narrowing’ for family Christmas gatherings, warns HSE (RTÉ)

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The Contact Calculator (top) HSE CEO Paul Reid (above) and top with Anne O’Connor, Chief Operations Officer, HSE

This afternoon.

The weekly HSE covid briefing, Dr Steeven’s Hospital, Dublin.

Via RTÉ:

HSE CEO PAUL Reid told the briefing that the HSE has launched a “Contact Calculator“, available on HSE.ie, which he said will help people to think about the number of people they meet. He warned that people “will meet more people than they think” they will over Christmas.

Good grief.

Meanwhile…

The HSE’s Chief Operating Officer, Anne O’Connor has said attendances in Emergency Departments are increasing but are 15% below the number this time last year.

She said admissions to ED are increasing too, but are lower than this time last year.

Hmm.

HSE urges people to keep Christmas visits to ‘absolute minimum’ (RTÉ)

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