{"id":507531,"date":"2026-04-01T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507531\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:32:10","slug":"kerry-pharmacist-welcomes-medicine-blister-packs-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507531\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry pharmacist welcomes medicine blister packs agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kerry pharmacist has welcomed the agreement reached on medicine blister packs.<\/p>\n<p>The HSE and the Irish Pharmacy Union have reached an agreement on blister packs, ending months of negotiations around the issue.<\/p>\n<p>New reforms mean vulnerable patients such as those with dementia, an intellectual disability, or people at risk of medication misuse will have their dispensing costs &#8211; including blister packs &#8211; paid for by the State.<\/p>\n<p>The packs will also be free of charge for medical card patients when deemed appropriate, while others will have to pay a fee set by individual pharmacists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/jack-shanahan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Castleisland pharmacist Jack Shanahan<\/a> says it will protect vulnerable patients, and has addressed the wider issue around dispensing of medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kerry pharmacist has welcomed the agreement reached on medicine blister packs. The HSE and the Irish Pharmacy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[177924,102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-507531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-blister","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-medication","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507531","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=507531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}