Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
It has long been recommended that addiction nurses should prescribe within the drugs services. This was recommended going back to the Carroll report. Why have we not seen any progress in that area? Nurses are centrally involved in the provision of services yet they cannot prescribe. Why is that restricted to doctors?
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