Tag Archives: Prescription charges

Continued prescription charges remain unfinished business for this Government - and the next

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Prescription charges for medical card holders yielded an estimated €116 million last year, which means that the cost of abolishing prescription charges at current activity levels was approximately €120 million, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has indicated.

Three leading GPs promise to deliver a positive overall message at the forthcoming IMT GP Practice Management Seminar, writes Gary Culliton.

The IMO has welcomed a European Commission report that finds prescription charges and co-payments by patients are “inequitable and inefficient”.

Dear Editor, In your recent editorial (‘Basket-weaving and the content of UHI’, 28.

By Gary Culliton.

By Catherine Reilly.