Healthcare Reform for Irish Patients
Our Vision
is that all Irish Patients can afford and access the medicines they need to get well, stay well and live well.
About Us
We are dedicated to affordable access to medicine
Medicines for Ireland is a pharmaceutical industry body committed to affecting real change and reforms to help ensure that patients across Ireland have access the medicines they need at affordable prices.
Since its foundation in 2016, Medicines for Ireland has been promoting the benefits of the increased use of non-patent medicines in Ireland.
Our members are the suppliers of the majority of medicine in Ireland to the HSE and patients directly.
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Our Goals
As an organisation, our core objective is to improve the way Ireland procures and supplies medicines to help expand patient access to affordable, lifesaving and life-enhancing treatment.
- Enhance access to safe, high-quality medicines for patients across Ireland at an affordable price.
- Safeguard the supply of medicines to Ireland by helping to ensure supply chains remain secure and reliable.
- Innovate our approach to acquiring, supplying, and distributing medicines nationwide with the dual objective of pushing down costs and delivering greater equality of access for patients.
- Inform key stakeholders of the specific and wider benefits associated with the increased usage of off-patent medicines.
MEDICINES FOR EUROPE
30th ANNIVERSARY
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Medicines for Ireland was proud to support the Medicines for Europe Annual Conference, which took place in the Portmarnock Resort & Jameson Golf Links on the 12th and 13th of June.
News and Articles
Medicines for Ireland welcomes political parties’ commitments to generic, biosimilar and value-added medicines ahead of election day
Ahead of polling day, Medicines for Ireland (MFI) warmly welcomes the inclusion of several of its key priorities in the manifestos and policy papers of
Medicines for Ireland unveils General Election Manifesto
Suppliers of generic, biosimilar, and value-added medicines call on political parties to ensure fair competition through patent reform, which could potentially saving the State millions.
Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive will undermine the availability, affordability and accessibility of medicines
Medicines for Ireland, alongside our colleagues in Medicines for Europe, are seriously concerned about the impact of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD). The direct
Off-patent medicines industry marks 30 years of delivering public health impact
Medicines for Europe marks 30 years of delivering more equitable access to off-patent medicines as it opens its annual European conference in Dublin, in partnership with Medicines for Ireland
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Medicines for Ireland
Iconic Offices – The Greenway,
Block C,
Ardilaun Court,
112-114 St Stephen’s Green,
Dublin 2, D02 TD28
