PROJECT FACT SHEET

Vaccines Distribution Service for GPs & Pharmacies 

HEADLINE: 4.3 Million Vaccines, 1.1 Thousand GPs, 900 Pharmacies and 22 Thousand Conversations.

In early 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic reached Ireland, the Health Service Executive (HSE) was asked to respond urgently to a challenge containing many elements they had no prior experience of, including establishing and running nationally integrated call centres, integrating SMS, web and app channels, logistics organisation to vaccinate our population, building out the needed computer systems (none of which existed before the pandemic), redeploying senior and junior staff into roles they had never played before, and establishing a permanent enduring infectious diseases protection organisation to bring us through the pandemic, and its aftermath.

Since the outset of the pandemic VISION has been in situ at the HSE helping them to navigate through the multiple challenges presented in their response to Covid-19.

The HSE’s vaccine roll out programme relies heavily on GPs and – from late June (2021) - pharmacists administering the doses. As an initial step the HSE had established the vaccine roll out programme with a small vanguard of GPs, and a simplified approach to start distributing vaccines quickly, given the urgency of the situation.

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