Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Shaun Flanagan:

If we are talking about reimbursement, conditional means something different. The HSE is entitled to put conditions around reimbursement if it believes that it is in the interests of patient safety or if it will improve cost effectiveness, maximising the appropriate use of an item or appropriately applying the resources available to it. There are conditions around how some cystic fibrosis medicines are reimbursed. People have to have the specific genetic mutations-----

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