by onamze | Apr 7, 2020 | Legislation
The Government, on Friday the 3rd of April 2020, signed amended prescription legislation to support patients , prescribers , pharmacists and pharmacy technicians during this SARSCOV-2 pandemic facing the world. These amendments will give extra support to pharmacy...
by onamze | Jul 4, 2019 | PCRS
The HSE/PCRS has decided that from the 1st of July 2019 not all Oral Nutritional Supplements which have a PCRS/GMS code will be automatically reimbursed. The HSE/PCRS has divided the present Oral Nutritional Supplements into two categories namely List A and List B....
by onamze | Jan 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
“The PSI, the pharmacy regulator, has informed pharmacists that they should not offer food intolerance testing services to diagnose food intolerance. The PSI issued a communication to pharmacists following the publication by the Health Products Regulatory...
by onamze | Jul 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Emergency Contraception Available to Medical Card Patients at No Cost The Minister for health and the IPU have come to a progressive arrangement whereby GMS patients from the 1st of July 2017 will be able to access emergency contraception from community...
by onamze | May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
The HSE have released more information about phased dispensing in addition to our initial post and general FAQs. We have attached the FAQs Below Page 2 Page 3 Page 4
by onamze | May 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hi , To get our list of our 29 page document for FREE that is a comprehensive list of the following : A list of products on the Irish Market , which have branded generics ( Includes Various Strengths and Drug Names) A list of the anti-infectives and their branded...
by onamze | Apr 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Controlled Drugs Rules for Prescriptions The Department of health has decided to make some changes to the controlled drugs legislation as it currently stands. The proposed changes are outlined below. It is not yet brought into law yet but these are the proposed...
by onamze | Apr 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Phased Dispensing Rules 2017 If you have attended any of our classes to date you will remember that I had explained to you that “phasing” which is done on the GMS only is going through a lot of changes at the moment , and now a bigger change has occurred. The HSE has...
by onamze | Apr 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Prescription Charges Prescription charges from the 1st of March have been revised as per the budget in 2016 for patients over 70 who have a valid GMS card and their dependants as well . The new fee per item for these patients is €2 per item from €2.50 per item for...
by onamze | Apr 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Explaining Prescription Drugs and Driving to Your Patients as a Pharmacist Since the introduction of road side testing in April for drug driving , a lot of pharmacists have found that they are having a lot of questions from their patients about how this road side...
