{"id":177387,"date":"2025-12-10T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177387\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:57:08","slug":"people-may-be-charged-up-to-e50-a-month-from-january-for-blister-pack-medication-as-taoiseach-vows-to-discuss-with-hse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177387\/","title":{"rendered":"People may be charged up to \u20ac50 a month from January for blister-pack medication as Taoiseach vows to discuss with HSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taoiseach Micheal Martin (Brian Lawless\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4e53a056-8630-4925-95ff-e0a17bd6360f.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)\">Taoiseach Micheal Martin (Brian Lawless\/PA)<\/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)\">A looming charge to patients for blister-pack medication has been raised in the D\u00e1il, with Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin saying: \u201cWe will go back and discuss this with the HSE.\u201d<\/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 have written to patients proposing to institute a charge of \u20ac20 to dispense blister packs from the beginning of January after the end of a system whereby the State paid for their preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Micheal Martin (Brian Lawless\/PA) A looming charge to patients for blister-pack medication has been raised in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,17753,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-177387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-medication","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}