Patients crossing border for prescriptions

Added: 10-08-2012

Private patients in Co Donegal and other Border counties are crossing into Northern Ireland to buy their prescription drugs at prices much cheaper than what they pay at home.

It's reported in today's Irish Times that heart patients who don’t have medical cards can save up to €80 on a month’s supply of six commonly prescribed cardiac drugs by having their prescriptions dispensed in the North.

This could amount to savings of about €960 in a year, despite the unfavourable currency exchange rate.

One particular drug in the Republic can cost four times the total price of the six drugs combined in the North.