Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Medicines Strategy: Discussion

Dr. Kieran Harkin:

I thought I picked up the matter from something the Deputy said. Last year, we held our conference in the RCSI where a point was made by one of the health economists that there is a lot of research and comparing prices for drugs but there are other interventions like physiotherapy that nobody seems to think of actually doing. The point resonated with me and particularly when there are two patients, as the Deputy mentioned.