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With just over a week to go, Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has signed a statutory instrument changing access to emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) for medical card holders, effective 1st July 2017.
Minister Harris said “From next month medical card holders will be able to obtain EHC directly from a pharmacy, free of charge, without having to go to their GP for a prescription first."
The PSI is now undertaking a review of the current Code of Conduct for Pharmacists. This is your oportunity to let the PSI know your views on the matter by completing a short survey.
IIOP have published a new online training programme for the Diagnosis and Treatment of an Acute Asthma Attack and the Supply and Administration of Salbutamol.
This programme is a fully online and self-directed training programme, which enables pharmacists to satisfy the training requirements for the supply and administration of salbutamol in an emergency situation as outlined in S.I. No. 449/2015 and by the PSI.
In the first nationwide survey of its kind, the National Patient Experience Survey (NPES) will survey all adult patients discharged in May 2017, who have spent a minimum of 24 hours in an acute public hospital. The list of the 40 participating hospitals is available here. NPES is a joint initiative by HIQA, the HSE and the Department of Health.
For more information please visit www.patientexperience.ie
In accordance with PSI (Council) Rules 2008 and 2015, the Returning Officer Niall Byrne, PSI Registrar, has declared the following five pharmacists as elected for the purposes of Section 10(3)(f) of the Pharmacy Act 2007, for appointment by the Minister for Health to the PSI Council:
Conmel who are the only supplier of 5mg folic acid tablets in the Irish market have had a production issue and will be out of stock of Folic Acid 5mg until the end of May 2017.
In the meantime you can source it from McDowells (1000 for €8) and Medisource (28 for €3) according to unconfirmed reports. Contact details if required are available from our contacts page.
