The Medicines Management Programme aims to promote safe, effective and cost effective prescribing.

The HSE’s multi-disciplinary Medicines Management Programme (MMP) provides sustained national leadership relating to areas such as access to medicines and overall expenditure on medicines. The MMP manages an increasing number of medicines and ancillary products through Health Technology Management (HTM) to ensure cost-effective prescribing and utilisation; this includes the use of both reimbursement application systems and managed access protocols, and the best-value biological medicine initiative. In addition, the Preferred Drugs and Products initiatives are ongoing projects supporting prescribers in safe, effective and cost-effective use of the most commonly prescribed items.