Fitness-to-practise news
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Fitness to practise Pharmacy technician Neil Peter Brown, registration number 5016073, has been struck off the professional register for stealing more than £2,500 worth of medical equipment from a military airbase to sell on eBay. |
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Fitness to practise Pharmacy technician Allison Markham, registration number 5003792, has been suspended from the professional register for a year for committing benefit fraud amounting to more than £11,000 |
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Fitness to practise Superintendent pharmacist Sanjeev Narendrabhai Patel, registration 2045156, was struck off the register for falsifying prescriptions for expensive cancer drugs and selling them for a profit. |
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Fitness to practise The GPhC was wrong to publish the identities of pharmacists suspended on the back of the BBC Inside Out investigation and should have detected the illegal medicine sales before the media, a pharmacy lawyer has claimed. |
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Fitness to practise The GPhC has suspended a sixth pharmacist following December’s BBC Inside Out investigation, which claimed nine pharmacies in London were illegally selling prescription medicines. |
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Fitness to practise Pharmacist Ashoo Hayre Puri, registration 2057631, has been struck off for making sexual advances on two of his employees, making one feel as if she had been raped. |
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Practice The GPhC has revealed plans to gather data on patient experience, speed up fitness-to-practise cases and is considering hotlines for whistleblowers, in its response to the Francis report. |
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Fitness to practise The GPhC has suspended two more pharmacists implicated in BBC London’s Inside Out investigation into the alleged illegal sale of prescription-only medicines. |
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Fitness to practise Pharmacist Roshan Lal, registration 2023572, has been struck off following a 12 month suspension, during which the GPhC claimed he had shown a “startling lack of insight into his actions”. |
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Fitness to practise A “nosey” pharmacy technician has been given an official warning by the GPhC for repeatedly accessing the medical records of patients she knew with no clinical justification. |
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Practice The government has demanded that healthcare regulators, including the GPhC, tighten up their procedures for breaches of professional standards this week, in its response to the Francis report. |
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Fitness to practise A pharmacist has been suspended for six months after refusing to supply a patient's inhaler until she paid for damaged goods. The GPhC ruled that she had put commercial interests above her professional ethics. |
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Practice Offering oral contraceptives, implants and specialist sexual health clinics in pharmacies could build on the EHC PGD to help further slash teenage pregnancy rates in Scotland, pharmacy leaders have argued. |
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Fitness to practise Pharmacist Eric Yau Kwong Lee, registration number 2044576, was struck off the register for stealing nearly £15,000 from his employer Medichest to send to his family in China for his sister's kidney transplant. |
Practice In Depth
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C+D Senators answer your questions about training and education |
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C+D puts the scenarios that Which? used in their investigation to our own experts. |
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A patient with cancer is experiencing pain – despite it previously being under control. What would you do? Check your skills with this CPD scenario for pharmacy technicians |
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How much paracetamol can you sell at once? Find out with our simple guide |
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Does strength always indicate which drug is more powerful? Test your knowledge of pain relief with this scenario for dispensary staff |
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A customer is making repeat purchases of co-codamol. What should you do? Find out your next steps in this scenario for counter assistants |
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April’s C+D Summit covered four key areas: commissioning, leadership, public health and partnership. Here, C+D’s team share their take-home points on an intense day’s debate |
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Alliance Boots’ Almus generics range is booming as it capitalises on patent expiries, the company says, so what are the wider implications for pharmacy? |
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Obesity rates are rising and radical solutions have been proposed, but could pharmacy offer a middle way? |
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Lloydspharmacy’s new service can detect when a patient swallows a pill – and it’s just the beginning for sensor pill technology |
