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Please click on the link below to view photos from the ISHA Conference 2023, hosted by the Student Health Centre at University of Galway.

Congratulations to our colleague Theresa Lowry Lehnen who won two awards; the ‘Nursing Project of the Year’ award and the ‘Student Programme’ award at the Irish Healthcare Centre Awards 2023, for the SETU Carlow campus Nurse Prescriber (RNP) delivered Free Contraception and Sexual Health Services for 3rd level students. Read more here: https://www.itcarlow.ie/news.htm/view/id/18898

Many thanks to Dr Serena O Connell, GP at University of Galway and the outgoing President of ISHA, whose outstanding leadership, commitment and major input over the years, has brought the Irish Student Health Association and Student Health from strength to strength. 

Go raibh míle maith agat Serena, from all your friends and colleagues at the Irish Student Health Association.

Congratulations to Nurse Eilish Corley, ATU Sligo, the 2023 recipient of the Dr Thomas Davis Award for outstanding contribution to 3rd level student health. So very well deserved.

Many congratulations Eilish from all your colleagues at the Irish Student Health Association.

Read Eilish's nomination in the attached documents.

Many congratulations to Nurse Eilish Corley and Nurse Caroline Kennedy Crawford from ATU Sligo, who are the very worthy winners of the Pauline Carbury memorial award 2023. 

Well done Caroline and Eilish, from all at the Irish Student Health Association.

The HSE Partner Pack 6th April 2023, is available at: https://hsestakeholder-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/hse-partner-pack-6th-april-2023

Yes – you read right – it’s happening this Friday 14^th and Saturday 15^th Apri

The Health Service Executive has launched a new service today offering free online home testing for Hepatitis C. Up to 3,000 people in Ireland may currently have the blood borne virus, which infects the liver and, if left untreated, can cause serious and potentially life-threatening damage. The home test involving a simple finger prick test, will be delivered by post. The completed test is sent to the laboratory in the pre-paid envelope provided. Results will be communicated by text or phone.

New update on Approach to an STI consultation in Primary Care available to on the What's New page on antibioticprescribing.ie.

MSM Asymptomatic STI Screen Quick Reference Guide updated to reflect change in PrEP eligibility criteria. Update of links to HSE PrEP guidance webpage (HSE ‘Clinical management guidance for individuals taking HIV PrEP within the context of a combination HIV (and STI) prevention approach in Ireland’ updated in 2022)

To complete the theoretical component of the Cervical Screening Education Programme, you need to create an account on NSSResources. See the attached document in downloadable resources for details of how to create an account.

Click presentations (nssresources.ie) and the access code you will need to complete the cervical screening presentations is 072020.

There are 8 units/modules and MCQ assessments following each unit to complete, which will take approximately 2- 3 hours.