Dr. Yvonne Smyth:

There is another drug called bempedoic acid which is in tablet form. It only costs €50 a month. It might be suitable for some of these patients but again it has to go through the medicine management programme. To prescribe a drug that only costs €50 a month is going to take an awful lot of paperwork and an awful lot of time that would be better spent serving our patients in different ways.