Irish trade group IPHA welcomes confirmation of delayed medicines to be made available

31 July 2017

The Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) has welcomed the statement by the Health Service Executive (HSE) confirming that it will fund nine delayed medicines for prescribing to patients, but lambasts a “dysfunctional process.”

In a Written reply to the Dail regarding the fact that the drugs were approved but not being made available, Minister of Health Simon Harris said: “Each of these treatments were referred to my Department because the HSE decided to support the reimbursement application but considered that this could not be funded from within its current budgetary envelope and also taking account of the cumulative costs over a 5 year period. The HSE advise that the cumulative cost over 5 years of these treatments is approximately 120 million euros [$141 million].”

The drugs in question are:

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