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  In 2020, a Social Behaviour Review Group was established to review the current blood donor deferral policies of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS). The group was Chaired by Professor Mary Horgan and membership included IBTS Donor Consultants, Infectious Disease Physicians, Public Health Physicians, an Epidemiologist, and the IBTS Risk & Resilience Manager. Stakeholders …

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A Periodic Review | 2021 – Issue 2 The therapeutic landscape in haemophilia continues to change rapidly and it can be difficult to keep up to date. The Society has adapted a publication compiled by the European Haemophilia Consortium to produce a comprehensive update on ‘Novel Treatments in Haemophilia & other Bleeding Disorders: A Periodic …

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Our Winter Magazine is out now and comes packed with lots of interesting articles from members and staff, news and updates, reports and more. 2021 has been another trying year but when compared to 2020, there is much more cause for optimism and we hope you, like the I.H.S. team, are looking forward to Christmas. …

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Children’s Health Ireland are holding a Virtual Family Forum Meeting on 14 December 2021. This will be the second Family Forum meeting since becoming CHI. The Family Forum aims to showcase of CHI progress, initiatives and an opportunity for discussion with our CHI families. CHI are inviting parents/guardians/care givers/previous patients (inpatients, outpatients or day case …

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Nominations are now open for the Brian O’Mahony Award for outstanding contribution to haemophilia care in Ireland. Nominations can only be proposed by members of the society and members of the current board or staff cannot be nominated. If you would like to nominate someone who, in your opinion, has made a real difference in …

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We have received an update from the National Coagulation Centre regards the resumption of face to face clinics, please see below: Resuming Face to Face clinics in the NCC As you are aware during the Covid-19 pandemic we had reduced the number of patients we could see on a face to face basis and commenced …

Re-opening Face to Face Clinics in the NCC Read More »

Continuing with our series of Webinars, we have further meetings coming up on; Wednesday, November 10 @ 6PM: Hemlibra for Children with Dr Beatrice Nolan, CHI at Crumlin To join us for any of these meetings, please use the link & meeting ID below: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/9052210070 Password: 1968 If you plan to join, …

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Thanks to everyone who applied for an educational grant from the I.H.S. This year we received a lot of applications once again, which is brilliant! The I.H.S. educational grants are hugely beneficial and go some way to helping cover the expense of education. The sub-group of the board met over the past few weeks to …

Educational Grants 2021 Awards  Read More »

Our Autumn Magazine is out now and comes packed with lots of interesting articles from members and staff, news and updates, reports and more. We, like you are looking forward to the return of life to some semblance of normality as we head towards the close of 2021. In this issue, Brian provides an update …

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