A new felted installation by artist Lucy Sparrow (top) – you’ll recall her magnificent grocery store, Sparrow Mart).
‘The Bourdon Street Chemist’ is a fully-stocked, woollen pharmacy that will open to the public from mid January 2021 at London’s Lyndsey Ingram.
If your condition is more urgent, you can purchase many of the artist’s plush creations at her online store.
Can you spot the artist’s (deliberate/accidental) mistake?
Pharmacist Shane O’Sullivan of Healthwave Pharmacy in Dundrum, Co Dublin this afternoon.
Mr O’Sullivan is promising to match cross-Border prices for generic medications through a €25 -a-year subscription service.
Where’s his fupping white coat?
Damn generic hipsters.
Interview: Any pharmacy could cut costs to rival Northern Ireland (Pat Kenny Show,Newstalk)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Ireland is paying 24 times what the UK pays for generic drugs.
Meanwhile, a Cork company has been waiting a year for a response from the HSE regarding its plans to sell generic drugs.
While the Irish Times reports that the HSE plans to set up a unit to encourage GPs to prescribe generic drugs.
Hmm.
What is going on?
Study: Ireland Paying 24 times More For Generic Drugs Than UK (Irish Examiner)
Cheap Drugs In limbo : Cork Company Can’t Trade Due To HSE Delays (Peter HorganCork Independent)
HSE Creates Unit To Urge GPs To Make Better Use Of Cheaper Generic Drugs (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
