Medicines watchdog: wrong information given on drugs availability

The public is being given inaccurate information on the availability of some medicines in other European countries, the head of the country’s medicines watchdog has warned.

Professor Michael Barry, who heads up the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE), said information around the availability of certain medicines was misleading. He said this was concerning and skewing debate as the public was being left with the impression that Ireland was an outlier when it comes ...