150 chemists take action against HSE

UP TO 150 pharmacists are planning legal action against the Health Service Executive over its plans to reduce the Government’s spend on various community drugs schemes.

These individual actions are separate to a case being taken by the Irish Pharmacy Union also challenging the HSE decision to revise downwards by more than 8% the price it pays wholesalers for drugs.

The HSE decision, taken unilaterally, is an attempt to save €100 million off the state’s drugs bill.