The Hospital Saturday Fund has provided continued support to us for venesection nurse training and education for GP Practice Nurses, especially in the North West. As part of this funding, we partnered with the Education and Training Programme team in Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Donegal to develop a competency-based curriculum to manage venesection treatment for patients and with the IGPNEA, the Irish Practice Nurses Education Association.
We would like to thank the expert education team in the NW region, including Mairead Murphy, Kathy Taffe, Charlotte Hannon and venesection nurses Akhtar Arif and Margaret Dobbin for their expertise and commitment to integrated and collaborative working to improve haemochromatosis patient care. We worked on a high impact nurse education programme in 2025 and hope to continue to develop community initiatives in the treatment and care of patients, to reduce hospital dependency.
