Pharmacy regulator criticises Government and HSE

IRELAND’S new pharmacy regulator has accused both the Government and Health Service Executive of dragging their heels in meeting patients’ needs.

President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, Brendan Hayes, said there was a need for a shift in policy by both bodies.

The flexible and invaluable role played by pharmacists could go much further in preventing customers becoming patients, Mr Hayes declared at the society’s national pharmacy summit in Dublin yesterday.