€500m health centre plan worries pharmacists
The Irish Pharmaceutical Union (IPU) also said the health centre concept raised serious ethical issues by creating a linkage between doctors and the pharmacies that stock drugs they had prescribed.
The IPU’s comments came in light of plans by pharmacy chain Unicare’s founder Fergus Hoban to set up a network of health centres that would act as a one-stop shop for patients and would contain doctors, dentists, pharmacies, opticians and other medical experts.
