Beacon refused HSE offer of backup list of healthcare workers to get Covid vaccine

The vaccination centre at the hospital was closed after it was revealed that teachers and staff at St Gerard’s School in Bray received vaccines meant for healthcare workers

Michael Cullen, chief executive of the Beacon Medical Group: his children attended St Gerard’s School which received the leftover vaccines meant for healthcare workers. Picture: Tony O’Shea

The Beacon Hospital refused the HSE’s offer in March 2021 of a backup list of healthcare workers to inoculate using leftover doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, the Business Post can reveal.

Correspondence released to the Business Post, under Freedom of Information rules, has shown the HSE believed the Beacon Hospital would administer excess doses of the Covid-19 vaccine in mop-up clinics before it emerged that vaccines meant for healthcare workers were given to teachers at ...