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A driver s claim that he fainted at the wheel before running over and killing a teenager has been labelled extremely unlikely by an expert witness.
Mary Day, Chief Executive, St James’s Hospital, Dublin.
St James’s Hospital is Ireland’s largest acute academic teaching hospital, occupying a prominent position at the forefront of the Irish health sector.
In partnership with its academic partner, Trinity College Dublin, its overarching ambition is to create a dynamic healthcare campus, which will be a leading healthcare organisation, nationally and internationally, improving health outcomes through collaboration, education, research and innovation.
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That daily Vitamin D supplementation of 20-25µg/day should be recommended to the entire adult population as a public health measure, with higher doses recommended for vulnerable groups under medical supervision.
That a public health policy, which promotes better knowledge of the benefits of Vitamin D, and which encourages Vitamin D supplementation, should be developed in time for consideration in Budget 2022.
That reducing the cost of Vitamin D supplementation, in order to promote its uptake, should be considered, through the reduction or indeed the elimination of the current VAT rate; and
That specific measures need to be put in place for vulnerable groups, and for frontline and healthcare workers, so that Vitamin D supplementation is administered on an opt-out basis, and for the duration of this pandemic, people should be offered Vitamin D supplements when presenting at Covid-19 test centres.