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Guidance


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Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers: Clinical Assessment, Risk Categorisation and Management in Acute and Primary Care Settings
File Size: (458 kb) Publication Date: 09 April 2024
9 Apr, 2024 457.50 KB Download
Striving to End Tuberculosis – A Strategy for Ireland 2024 - 2030
27 Mar, 2024 1,397.02 KB Download
Legionnaires' Disease - Checklist for hostels providing accommodation for people who are homeless
17 Jul, 2016 83.88 KB Download
Legionnaires' Disease - Checklist for hotels and other accommodation sites
ECDC - Leaflet for managers of tourist accommodation on how to reduce the risk of Legionnaires' disease
6 Jul, 2016 98.39 KB Download
Legionnaires' disease - Checklist for gardeners
9 Jul, 2018 29.74 KB Download
Legionnaires’ Disease - Checklist for leisure centres
1 May, 2017 701.83 KB Download
Standard Operating Procedures for Public Health Response to Community Outbreak or Travel Associated Cluster of Legionnaires’ Disease
1 Aug, 2011 69.85 KB Download
HSE Standard Operating Procedures for responding to an outbreak of nosocomial Legionnaires’ Disease
1 Oct, 2012 69.85 KB Download
Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection from Water Systems in Healthcare Facilities
1 Jan, 2015 1,446.96 KB Download
National Guidelines for the Control of Legionellosis in Ireland, 2009
19 Feb, 2009 2,078.08 KB Download
Algorithm for Management of adults and children presenting with symptoms of acute respiratory infections (ARI) at Primary Care Facilities when influenza is circulating
29 Nov, 2023 372.21 KB Download
Guidance on the use of antiviral agents for the treatment and prophylaxis of influenza
14 Dec, 2023 860.68 KB Download
2024-2025 One Day Point Prevalence Survey Form of Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake of Residents based in residential care facilities (RCFs) in Ireland
30 Oct, 2024 112.50 KB Download
2024-2025 Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Survey Form for Hospital-based Health Care Workers
19 Feb, 2025 140.74 KB Download
2024-2025 Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Survey Form for RCF-based Health Care Workers
19 Feb, 2025 148.26 KB Download
Appendix to Point Prevalence Survey 2024/2025 Season Report on Influenza & COVID-19 Vaccination among Residents in Long-term Residential Care Facilities [EXCEL File]
26 Feb, 2025 33.71 KB Download
Point Prevalence Survey 2024/2025 Season Report on Influenza & COVID-19 Vaccination among Residents in Long-term Residential Care Facilities
26 Feb, 2025 715.06 KB Download
Algorithm: Guidance on testing for Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) in Residential Care Facilities (RCF) Winter 2024/2025
22 Oct, 2024 323.93 KB Download
Protocol for Point Prevalence Survey for Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake of Residents in RCFs 2024-2025
30 Oct, 2024 217.13 KB Download
Protocol for measuring HCW influenza & COVID-19 vaccination uptake in Hospitals and Residential Care Facilities, 2024-2025 season
19 Feb, 2025 292.00 KB Download
Guidance on testing for Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) in Residential Care Facilities (RCF) - Winter 2024/2025
4 Apr, 2025 351.26 KB Download
Public Health and Infection Prevention and Control guidance on the prevention and management of cases and outbreaks of respiratory viral infections in Residential Care Facilities
4 Dec, 2024 681.29 KB Download
Public Health and Infection Prevention and Control guidance on the prevention and management of cases and outbreaks of respiratory viral infections in Residential Care Facilities
21 Aug, 2024 681.29 KB Download
Rationale for referring samples for influenza surveillance
6 Jan, 2016 450.96 KB Download
Referral pathway for Influenza A (unsubtyped) and Influenza B positive samples to the National Virus Reference Laboratory (WHO reference laboratory) for viral characterisation
6 Jan, 2016 450.96 KB Download
Guidelines on the management of pregnant and postpartum women with suspected influenza
14 Dec, 2023 404.85 KB Download
Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) for the Prevention of Avian Influenza leaflet (Polish)
5 Mar, 2017 342.30 KB Download
Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) for the Prevention of Avian Influenza leaflet (Lithuanian)
6 Mar, 2017 913.37 KB Download
Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) for the Prevention of Avian Influenza leaflet (Portuguese)
6 Mar, 2017 350.84 KB Download
Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) for the Prevention of Avian Influenza leaflet (Latvian)
6 Mar, 2017 341.03 KB Download
Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) for the Prevention of Avian Influenza leaflet (English)
744.36 KB Download
Algorithm 3: Investigation and management of possible human cases of avian influenza in individuals not under Public Health surveillance
29 Oct, 2023 219.23 KB Download
Algorithm 2: Investigation and management of possible human cases of avian influenza in known contacts under Public Health Surveillance
29 Oct, 2023 206.35 KB Download
Algorithm 1 - Public Health Response to a human exposure to a confirmed/suspect case of HPAI H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b in both avian and mammal species
29 Oct, 2023 147.85 KB Download
Management of contacts of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b
29 Oct, 2023 468.88 KB Download
Appendix D: Sample template of a hospital policy document on infection prevention and control recommendations for the prevention of nosocomial invasive aspergillosis during hospital construction or renovation
1 Jan, 2018 234.72 KB Download
National Guidelines for the Prevention of Nosocomial Aspergillosis
1 Jan, 2018 627.86 KB Download
National Guidelines for the Prevention of Nosocomial Invasive Aspergillosis during Construction/Renovation Activities (2002)
1 Jan, 2002 158.70 KB Download
Form C: Example of a CJD post mortem information form
6 Aug, 2019 103.90 KB Download
Form B: CJD incident reporting form to the Incident Panel on Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies and the local Department of Public Health
6 Aug, 2019 345.27 KB Download
Form A: Referral of cases/suspect TSE cases to the National CJD Surveillance Unit and to the local Department of Public Health (Also to be adapted with outcomes data)
6 Aug, 2019 186.48 KB Download
Protocol for reporting and management of cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD) and other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) or of a person at increased risk of a TSE
23 Dec, 2021 434.59 KB Download
Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-related Infection in Ireland – Full version of the National Guidelines
Updated September 2014
1 Sep, 2014 2,103.24 KB Download
Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-related Infection in Ireland – Summary of Recommendations
Updated September 2014
1 Sep, 2014 1,132.42 KB Download
Appendix 1: Tuberculin Skin Contradictions, Administration and Interpretation
26 Jun, 2025 222.88 KB Download
Chapter 7: Contact Tracing and Case Finding
26 Jun, 2025 293.24 KB Download
Chapter 7: Contact Tracing and Case Finding
26 Jun, 2025 293.24 KB Download
Appendix 1: Tuberculin Skin Testing Contradictions, Administration and Interpretation
26 Jun, 2025 222.88 KB Download
Chapter 4: Treatment of Cases with Drug-resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB)
25 Jun, 2025 260.19 KB Download
Chapter 3: Tuberculosis (TB) Disease
25 Jun, 2025 332.35 KB Download