{"id":207210,"date":"2025-10-17T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207210\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:38:11","slug":"longford-westmeath-td-calls-for-faster-hse-access-to-rare-disease-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207210\/","title":{"rendered":"Longford-Westmeath TD Calls For Faster HSE Access To Rare Disease Medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 16 October 2025 13:47\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68f0e92da0417.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo Credit: Facebook\/ Sorca Clarke TD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Oireachtas Health Committee member Sorca Clarke is making the call.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The HSE needs to fast-track its access scheme for rare disease medicines.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to Oireachtas Health Committee member Sorca Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>The Longford-Westmeath TD feels that the first point of contact should be medical experts and not public representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Michael Barry, Head of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics\u00a0insists they do engage with patients in giving them their treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Clarke says the current system isn&#8217;t good enough:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 16 October 2025 13:47 Photo Credit: Facebook\/ Sorca Clarke TD. Oireachtas Health Committee member Sorca Clarke is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[18910,18909,102,18913,18911,1382,18908,6591,18906,18907,50,9165,2186,56,54,55,18912],"class_list":{"0":"post-207210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-irish-news","12":"tag-laois","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-local-radio","15":"tag-medication","16":"tag-midlands","17":"tag-midlands-103","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-offaly","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom","24":"tag-westmeath"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}