Price of Lipitor reduced

Now that Lipitor is out of patent, the price has come down - a little. This morning I paid €28.10 for 28 x 10mg. Anyone doing better?

Thanks.

D.

Will they give Irish prescription drugs in the UK?

roker said:

Will they give Irish prescription drugs in the UK?

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Yes, if you mean can you present your Irish prescription in the UK. They are very used to it in border areas. Can't speak for the 'mainland' UK.

Dinarius said:

Now that Lipitor is out of patent, the price has come down - a little. This morning I paid €28.10 for 28 x 10mg. Anyone doing better?

Thanks.

D.

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I was paying €18 for these. Raffertys Chemist in Stillorgan Shopping Centre also Boots in Donnybrook. For 20mg the price went up to about €25. Now on Crestor generic, 20 mg €40.

roker said:

Will they give Irish prescription drugs in the UK?

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Yes they will. I found the cheapest place to fill an Irish prescription was Boots in the North.

Boots in Newry doesn't have a dispensing Pharmacy, last time I was there anyway, so you'll have to go further north.

Boots will check to see if your GP is registered online with the European GP Register - perhaps not the exact name. Once they are satisfied that the GP is registered, they will dispense.

My GP writes 6 month prescriptions for me and it costs £12.50 for a six month supply in the north and €180 for six months here in the south.

Big difference and if your other half is also on monthly meds, you can save even more.

delgirl said:

My GP writes 6 month prescriptions for me and it costs £12.50 for a six month supply in the north and €180 for six months here in the south.

Big difference and if your other half is also on monthly meds, you can save even more.

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Wow!

Where did you go?

Thanks.

D.

According to the Boots website, there are 92 stores in the north.

I went to the one in Craigavon shopping centre and had no problem getting the script filled.

The key thing seems to be that if there's a generic form of the drug and the GP writes this name as opposed to a brand name on the script, then the savings are huge. The GP also has to write 6 months supply otherwise the pharmacist will only dispense 1 month at a time if they write x 6.

If it's a drug which is still under licence eg. Coversyl, the saving is smaller as there is no generic equivalent yet until the licence expires. On my other half's 6 month script for Coversyl, we only saved about €30. But he's on two other meds and the total saving was around €255 for a six month period.

delgirl said:

The key thing seems to be that if there's a generic form of the drug and the GP writes this name as opposed to a brand name on the script, then the savings are huge. The GP also has to write 6 months supply otherwise the pharmacist will only dispense 1 month at a time if they write x 6.

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Surely the state have to stipulate that only a generic script will be honoured - in whatever deal they have in place with GP's, pharmacies & drug companies?

Being asked to pay 12X the normal price - as per your example above is criminal.

delgirl said:

The GP also has to write 6 months supply otherwise the pharmacist will only dispense 1 month at a time if they write x 6.

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Does you mean in the north or the south? My GP writes 'repeat x 6' on my prescriptions and the pharmacist gives me the 6 months at once. Does it depend on the medicine?