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Old 12th, September 2008, 09:59 PM
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Default Re: Locum Rates

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Originally Posted by Tony Schofield View Post
The HSE are eyeing up greedily Irish Pharmacies settlement discount. They want 8% off the drug bill which at present comes into community pharmacy. In the UK it is clawed back from pharmacies using the discount recovery scale at the start of the drug tariff. So far Irish pharmacists have got a stay of execution. Make hay while the sun shines but the high locum rates in the republic are only sustainable whilst this current level of remuneration persists.

It won't persist.
Fair enough, but here's the latest development..

www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/court-finds-in-favour-of-pharmacies-in-dispute-with-hse-1473999.html


So much for the "power" of the multiples...they just fell off a very high fence....bring it on!
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