{"id":30410,"date":"2025-09-19T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30410\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T06:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:59:07","slug":"patients-can-bypass-gps-with-prescription-only-medicines-from-pharmacists-for-common-ailments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30410\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients can bypass GPs with prescription-only medicines from pharmacists for common ailments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Common Conditions Service will be available next year for a range of illnesses and consultancy fee can be charged by the pharmacy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pharmacists will be trained for new service. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1e6a7e9a-6526-4c70-bfb7-30df4c4fd7a4.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)\">Pharmacists will be trained for new service. 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)\">Pharmacists are to be allowed write patient prescriptions for the first time to treat certain common health \u00adconditions, bypassing the need for a GP. <\/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)\">The Common Conditions Service, due to come in early next year, is \u00adincluded in a package of new developments for pharmacies agreed with the Department of Health which will also see around \u20ac75m more state investment into high street and community chemists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Common Conditions Service will be available next year for a range of illnesses and consultancy fee can be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3414,4593,103,61,60,371],"class_list":["post-30410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-department-of-health","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30410","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=30410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}