{"id":128551,"date":"2025-10-17T18:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/128551\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:15:15","slug":"longford-westmeath-td-calls-for-faster-hse-access-to-rare-disease-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/128551\/","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.europesays.com\/ie\/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":128552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[19870,19869,18,135,19,17,19872,11763,3136,19868,462,3172,19867,5,3171,5485,19871],"class_list":{"0":"post-128551","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-eire","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-irish-news","15":"tag-laois","16":"tag-local-news","17":"tag-local-radio","18":"tag-medication","19":"tag-midlands","20":"tag-midlands-103","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-offaly","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-westmeath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}