Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
This new system came in last September. At that point, a patient could be started on the patches for a three-month period. Within that three-month period, if the GP wanted to continue prescribing, then the GP would need to register that on the application system. In other words, what is being introduced is a higher level of clinical supervision for the prescribing of the patches.
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