{"id":494193,"date":"2026-06-11T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494193\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:47:09","slug":"review-into-retail-pharmacy-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494193\/","title":{"rendered":"Review into retail pharmacy market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than two million pharmacy visits are made every week, and the competition watchdog wants to know if consumers are getting the best deal.<\/p>\n<p>The CCPC has launched a review of the retail pharmacy market following complaints and concerns about competition and transparency.<\/p>\n<p>The study will look at how easy it is for customers to compare prices and switch pharmacies, as well as the impact of changes in the market.<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Gray Commissioner of the CCPC says, customers can\u2019t feel priced out of an important service:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NEWSTALK202606110008.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NEWSTALK202606110008.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 More than two million pharmacy visits are made every week, and the competition watchdog wants to know&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-494193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494193","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=494193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}