Beacon Hospital apologises for school vaccination controversy and orders review

The statement also said the board "unreservedly apologised" to its patients, staff and the wider community for the upset caused by the vaccination of the teachers in the Beacon Vaccination Centre. Picture: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos

The Beacon Hospital has announced that an independent review is to be conducted after the hospital vaccinating teachers at St Gerard’s private school in Bray, Co Wicklow.

Coronavirus vaccine operations at the hospital have been suspended after it used 20 doses, which were left over after a daily vaccination session, to vaccinate some staff members at the exclusive school.