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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

...the abolition of inpatient hospital charges. Free contraception has been rolled out to women up to the age of 30, access to State-funded GP care has been expanded in the largest expansion ever and the threshold for the drugs payments scheme has been reduced to €80 per household per month. The full year cost of these measures is over €240 million per annum. This record...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Martin Conway: In his opening statement, Mr. Watt also spoke about the whole issue of orphan drugs, new drugs, and the spiralling cost of drugs. There is a concern, which this committee has articulated before, that we are slow to introduce new drugs in this country compared to other European countries. Could Mr. Watt quickly elaborate on what was contained in his statement in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

...in ten years. The pressures are manifold because more people are accessing the high-tech scheme and there are more people on the long-term illness, LTI, scheme. There is also the reduction in the drugs payment scheme, DPS, so that more of the costs are met by the taxpayer as opposed to individuals. There has also been a general expansion in the volume, and there is also the price. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Mr. Robert Watt: Yes, we have a breakdown. It is mental health services, older persons services and the primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, which is a large part of the drugs costs that were mentioned. Perhaps Mr. Colman can give the headings. It would probably be best to send the information to the Senator rather than reading it out. It is all the other elements that go into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Mr. Robert Watt: That is something we are working on a plan with the HSE now in terms of how we can accelerate that uptake. If the same drug provides the same care and the same effects for patients and if they are cheaper, we need to move to them. We can maybe come back another day and maybe Dr. Henry can add to it. Certainly that is what we need to do because we cannot afford all the...