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Cost of medicines

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  • 10-10-2017 12:39pm
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    Maidhci
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    I recently collected prescribed medicines from a pharmacy which is not the usual one for the person concerned. In any event, the medicine cost €14+ more than the price charged by the other pharmacy.

    Does anyone know if there is a uniform price agreed with the HSE in respect of GMS prescriptions? If so, I presume it should be the same for private patients or am I missing something here?

    In hindsight, I should have asked for the price when I left in the prescription, but it didn't register with me as I assumed the cost would be the same, irrespective of dispensing pharmacy. €14 x 12 is quite a substantial difference. Any comments or recommendations would be welcome. Thanks.


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    Maz2016
    Registered Users Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭Maz2016


    Maidhci wrote: »
    I recently collected prescribed medicines from a pharmacy which is not the usual one for the person concerned. In any event, the medicine cost €14+ more than the price charged by the other pharmacy.

    Does anyone know if there is a uniform price agreed with the HSE in respect of GMS prescriptions? If so, I presume it should be the same for private patients or am I missing something here?

    In hindsight, I should have asked for the price when I left in the prescription, but it didn't register with me as I assumed the cost would be the same, irrespective of dispensing pharmacy. €14 x 12 is quite a substantial difference. Any comments or recommendations would be welcome. Thanks.

    Pharmacies charge a dispensing fee per product. This can be anything from 2.50 to a fiver. My local pharmacy charge 2 Euro per product but that’s rare. I was in one bigger pharmacy recently and it was 4.75. So , in theory I reckon it’s better to but 3 months or so at a time as you only pay the one dispensing fee


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