
Marie Cantwell
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Professional Development Coordinator for GP Nurses in Dublin, Daughter, Sister, Mother, Nurse. Reader, watcher, talker. All views my own
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14-01-2016 14:22:31
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Thank you for organising NationalPDCGPN I’m excited to be here #immunisationforall #hummanlypossible #vaccineworks HSE National Immunisation Office (NIO)



#NationalImmunisationConferenceSeries2025 Dee Duffy, Senior Legal Counsel at Medisec Ireland CLG, presenting "Little Legs, Big Decisions" on the consent conversation. Key insights into medical legal aspects! #GPNs #CPD #HumanlyPossible MedisecIreland



Great to be hear in Carrick on Shannon at the 4th and final HSE Immunisation conference on behalf of MedisecIreland Looking forward to addressing the delegates later today on the important topic of #Consent Please do pop over to the Medisec stand to say hello


Dr. Lucy Jessop HSE National Immunisation Office (NIO) opening today's event in The Landmark Hotel, acknowledging the role of GP nursing in protecting communities from vaccine preventable disease. #humanlypossible HSE Ireland Irish College of GPs We are GPNs 🇮🇪 Kathy Taaffe Marie Cantwell Liz Carroll IGPNEA


Bridie McMahon sharing her story on behalf of Polio Survivors IRL hugely impactful presentation outlining the impact on life, family and community. Her description of being re-introduced to her mother at the age of 8 following 4 years in hospital brings the room to silence.


Everybody's go-to font of information at the NIO HSE National Immunisation Office (NIO) Dr. Tom Barrett running through all things Catch-up in relation to immunisation programmes. Thank you Dr. Tom for all your support. #HumanlyPossible HSE Health & Wellbeing


Dr. Muireann de Paor from the NIO HSE National Immunisation Office (NIO) giving practical communication advice on how to address vaccine hesitancy using a motivational interviewing approach #HumanlyPossible #NationalImmunisatioConferenceSerie25 HSE Ireland HSEWestNorthWest ONMSD HSE Health & Wellbeing HSE Dublin and Midlands



The last of our NIO colleagues HSE National Immunisation Office (NIO) , Senior Pharmacist Leah Gaughan outlining best practice in vaccine management including ordering, storage and dealing with temperature excursions, power outages and use of correct batch numbers


We had 5 lucky winners of some lovely spot prizes, pictured here with Mairead Murphy Our thanks to the Landmark Hotel, Primary Care and Clanwilliam IRL for generously supporting #NationalImmunisationConferenceSeries25


Skills Zones in full flow: Dr. Thelma Begley and Charlotte Hannon demonstrating clinical holding and injection technique in practice Thelma Begley School of Nursing & Midwifery, TCD ONMSD NMPDUNorthWest CNME Sligo, Leitrim and West Cavan


Last of the skills zones: Kathy Taaffe and Marie Courtney delivering a guide to implementing and using medicine protocols in the delivery of national immunisation programmes.


Colleagues from the ESRI, Maria Lee and Deirdre Robertson Esri with PDCs Mairead Murphy Liz Carroll and with Dr. Aine McNamara, Area Director of Public Health HSEWestNorthWest promoting ESRI national survey on infant immunisation (link to survey: shorturl.at/LFEaL)


Our last speaker of the day Suzanne Creed of MedisecIreland with her thought provoking insight and practical advice in relation to consent for immunisations in general practice. Irish College of GPs HSE National Immunisation Office (NIO) Dr Colm Henry, CCO HSE Ireland


Thanks to all at NationalPDCGPN for an amazing day. Very informative for all GPN’s. Bernard Gloster HSE National Immunisation Office (NIO) 💉😃


And that's a wrap! Kathy Taaffe bringing #NationalImmunisationConferenceSeries25 to a close. 6 weeks, 4 venues, over 1000 attendees, immeasurable commitment to protecting ALL communities from vaccine preventable disease.

We are so grateful to you Suzanne Creed, to Dee Duffy and to MedisecIreland for being with us over the past 6 weeks.