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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

...officer in the primary care performance and oversight division of the Department of Health and I am joined by my colleagues Ms Anne Marie Seymour, principal officer in the medicines, controlled drugs and pharmacy legislation unit of the Department, Ms Adedolapo Odukoya, assistant principal, and Ms Bevin Doyle, assistant principal. I would like to briefly outline the background and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...to be addressed. Whatever measures necessary have to be taken to ensure an adequate supply in the marketplace, now, not in six months or a year, but now. The other one is to ensure that the new drugs coming onstream, which can make a huge contribution, should be made available as quickly as possible by the health service. It is not acceptable that we wait until the end of the winter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

...the finished product. Many of the medicines can be exported but I will engage with our colleagues in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment on that and come back to him. Regarding new drugs coming on stream, there is a lot of work going on at European level for all European citizens at the moment. The pharmaceutical strategy and legislation was published in April. A working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Are there any examples in, say, the European Union of pharmacists being able to prescribe particular drugs to customers? Is there any mechanism in Europe whereby that can happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: How would medicinal products be classified? These are drugs that do not need to be prescribed by a doctor but can be obtained in a pharmacy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

...different things in different countries. You can go into a pharmacy for any medication, really. Another piece of work ongoing in the Department is looking at the emergency supply of controlled drugs, which can be an issue at times when people need access, even in palliative care-type situations, where there is a need for an emergency supply for a couple of days for somebody. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Ms Anne Marie Seymour: As regards methadone, I think that on the emergency supply any controlled drug would be included.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: That could be applied to all drugs, could it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: If that person goes to a pharmacy and says he or she has finished his or her prescription and cannot see his or her GP, could the pharmacist provide a week's supply of that drug?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ...will do their best. However, that does not prevent the situation arising where the same person can go to different pharmacies in different parts of the country or the city and get the same drug.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ...? We want to expand what pharmacists can do. If we had a card system in place for everyone just as they have bank cards, the pharmacist could open a person's file and see a person already got a drug in another pharmacy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Ms Anne Marie Seymour: I know they have very detailed project plans and they have been delivering different things in terms of the formulae for drug files, but I do not want to say it here without double-checking. I can a get a briefing on that and send it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: ...statement. Will the witnesses expand on that? In regard to some of the products, what general area will this legislation apply to? I presume there is quite regularly a shortage of antibiotics. That was one of the drugs people mentioned there is some shortage of. The area of big pharma whereby products come from all over the world was also mentioned. Are the shortages in particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

...shortages and the security of medicine supply would help to mitigate the impact on a patient in the first place. There are two pieces of work to that. On the emergency supply of controlled drugs, a patient might leave hospital and a palliative care situation on a Friday evening. The reason for the emergency supply is to get such a patient over the day or two before they can access...