{"id":127679,"date":"2025-09-08T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127679\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:45:07","slug":"cost-of-prescriptions-in-guernsey-rises-year-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127679\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of prescriptions in Guernsey rises year-on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another key finding was the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) drugs and treatments with technological appraisals (TA) dispensed in the community had cost about \u00a33 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prescribing advisor Geraldine O&#8217;Riordan said: &#8220;A combined \u00a3385,000 was saved through targeted deprescribing and the savings via rebates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This meant that the cost of new NICE TA drugs to HSC was reduced by \u00a32 million in 2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report found rebates and discounts worth \u00a3976,000 had been recovered on community dispensing of high-cost drugs and additional discounts had reduced hospital dispensing costs by 40%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Public engagement in reducing waste by crossing off 139,859 unwanted items on prescription forms saved a further significant sum,&#8221; Ms O&#8217;Riordan added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another key finding was the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) drugs and treatments with technological&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-127679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}