Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion

Mr. Shaun Flanagan:

There is a very significant difference in that the legislation lays down that we are legally required to collect information in a register, so that in itself is different. The legislation lays down the things we must collect. Some of the information we collect, such as the name and address of the patient, would be normal information that would be on every and any prescription which anybody would have. There is information such as the use, which would not normally be on a prescription, for example. We would not normally see that even in our other reimbursement schemes. We would connect things. We would know the consultant. We would know their medical record number. All those types of things would be legal requirements as part of the prescription legislation for all medicines but therapeutic use in particular. The requirement to pre-approve is unusual but not unique.

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