The IPU issued a press release last Monday welcoming the recommendation of the Expert Taskforce set up by Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD, allowing pharmacists to extend the validity of prescriptions up to a maximum of 12 months. Read more here.
Susan O’Dwyer, IPU Head of Professional Services, was on RTÉ Radio 1 Morning Ireland (listen here from 24:40) and on RTÉ Six One News (watch here from 35:05) discussing the Expert Taskforce recommendation. Kathy Maher, IPU Chair of PCC, was on RTÉ Radio 1 Today with Claire Byrne discussing the same topic (listen here from 1:32) and also appeared on LMFM and Ocean Radio.
The item was also covered by IPU President Dermot Twomey who was quoted in the Echo newspaper, by IPU Honorary Treasurer Tom Murray on Highland Radio and Radio na Gaeltachta and Acting Secretary General Derek Reilly in the Irish Daily Mail and Irish Sun.
Other coverage included the Irish Times, Irish Independent, The Journal, Business Plus, Galway Bay, FM Clare FM, Limerick Live 95 and Extra.ie.
