Pharmacy owner admits to fraudulently obtaining HSE payments
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The owner of a chain of pharmacies has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining payments from the HSE’s Primary Care Reimbursement Service.
The scheme is responsible for making payments to healthcare professionals, like GPs, dentists and pharmacists, for the free or reduced costs services they provide to the public.
John Corr (55), of Vergemount Hall, Clonskeagh, Dublin appeared before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Thursday morning, charged with 20 counts of deception, contrary to section six of the Theft and Fraud Act, 2001
He had been sent forward for trial from Dublin District Court, where the court heard he is accused of deception of the HSE scheme of various sums ranging from €7 to €220 at Corr’s pharmacies in Clarehall and Clonshaugh in Dublin, and its branches at Clogherhead, Blackbull and Mell, in Drogheda, Co Louth.
Covid 19 coronavirus: People who visited locations of interest turned away from testing
25 Jan, 2021 09:26 PM
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By: Adam Pearse and Karina Cooper
Confusion is evident at Covid testing sites, with some people who were told to get tested by Healthline being turned away from the queue by officials.
Some are waiting for several hours before being turned away.
Ruakākā resident Maylene Erihe and her two daughters Lily May Green and Macylea Green were this morning turned away from the new racecourse testing site - despite visiting the same shops as the Covid positive woman and being told by Healthline to go to a testing station.