PSI Annual Reports
Each year we publish an Annual Report and Financial Statements, outlining the significant work undertaken by the PSI to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of patients and the public by regulating pharmacists and pharmacies in Ireland.
We have published our Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2024, outlining the significant work undertaken in meeting our responsibilities to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of patients and the public by regulating pharmacists and pharmacies in Ireland.
Key activities for the PSI during 2024 included:
- Significant contribution to the Department of Health’s Expert Taskforce to support the expansion of the role of pharmacy resulting in recommendations empowering pharmacists to extend prescriptions and to prescribe within their scope of practice.
- Participation in the Community Pharmacy Expansion Implementation Oversight Group to oversee the delivery of a Common Conditions Service in community pharmacies, a recommendation of the Taskforce report.
- Progressing initiatives to ensure the sustainability of community pharmacy, through implementation of recommendations from the PSI’s Workforce Intelligence Report, including establishing a multi-stakeholder Future Pharmacy Workforce Group with the Department of Health.
- Development of a new PSI Corporate Strategy for 2025-2028.
- Launch of a new PSI website.
- Streamlining the Third Country Qualification Recognition Route (TCQR), the application process for non-EU pharmacists to apply for recognition to practise in Ireland.
- Registering 417 new pharmacists, bringing the total number of pharmacists eligible to practise in Ireland to 7,731 at the end of 2024.
- Maintaining the register of pharmacies, which at the end of the year numbered 1,989, an increase of four on 2023.
- Handling 78 formal complaints, an increase of 6% on the previous year, and improving the PSI’s online facility to make these complaints online.
- Conducting 347 risk-based pharmacy inspections.
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