{"id":188879,"date":"2025-12-13T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188879\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:08:09","slug":"plan-to-charge-patients-up-to-e50-a-month-for-medication-blister-packs-is-postponed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188879\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to charge patients up to \u20ac50 a month for medication blister packs is postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/151dc116-956e-48c7-9370-30f0c0a68f25.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Fears people could be charged up to \u20ac50 a month for medicines dispensed in blister packs from January 1 by their pharmacists were alleviated after it emerged the proposal is being paused for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Pharmacists said a proposed charge will not come in to effect on January 1 as planned, and instead is being paused until around springtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. Photo: Getty Fears people could be charged up to \u20ac50 a month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3414,4593,103,2120,61,60,1421,371],"class_list":["post-188879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-department-of-health","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}