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New Pharmacy Act

  • 11-03-2007 4:20pm
    #1
    Killaqueen!!!
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    I probably posted this in the completely wrong forum but there are many places you can put this so mods can decide for themselves!

    Apparently there was a new Pharmacy Act propsed for 2006 - I'm just interested in what this covered and if it has come into practice now. I'm interested in doing Pharmacy in college and read a small passage about this in the newspaper but it didn't give much information.

    All it said was that students studying abroad and obtaining a degree abroad cannot open business in Ireland! That sucks for me as I was thinking of going to the UK if I didn't get enough points for Trinity (or any other Dublin college).

    I also read somewhere (great source :rolleyes: ) that pay is going down for some reason or another and maybe this is mentioned in the new bill?!


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  • #2
    frodi
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    The pharmacy bill is currently at committee stage in Dail. It is proposed to do away with the 3 year rule that means that pharmacy graduates from outside Ireland cannot cover a pharmacy that is less than 3 years old. Once it is more than 3 years old any pharmacist can work there. Currently it means that an EU pharmacy graduate can open a pharmacy via a Ltd Co (nearly all are Ltd Co now) but they cannot be the supervising pharmacist. They would have to employ an Irish graduate. This is proposed to be done away with. This is just a reflection of the situation across the EU whereby Irish graduates are not allowed to open a new pharmacy ANYWHERE in the EU bar Ireland.
    There is some downward pressure on wages for employees ATM because of the influx of EU pharmacists mainly from eastern Europe. Wages were a bit out of kilter because of scarcity. Also there is now 3 pharmacy courses in Ireland when when in full flow will bring 170 new pharmacist each year as opposed to 70 previously. There is also a large number of Irish people who have studied pharmacy in the UK who are now returning.
    Your best bet would be to get some work experience in a pharmacy as not everybody is cut out for it and doing a job just because the money is good is a poor reason.


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