Locum handed six-month suspension after ‘wholly unnecessary’ vaginal exam
A fitness-to-practise (FtP) hearing has found that a locum pharmacist working in a GP practice made “serious failings” when he undertook an “invasive intimate examination” that was not “clinically justified” and he was not “competent” to provide.
A “locum clinical pharmacist” has been given a six-month suspension for performing an "internal vaginal examination” on a patient, despite it being “neither clinically justified”