Bilal Hussain, registration number 2220710, was warned by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) for delivering “approximately 300 flu vaccines” without recording that patients had received the jab.
At a hearing on June 4, the GPhC’s investigating committee heard that the misconduct took place between September and December 2023, while Hussain was working as a “regular” locum pharmacist at a community pharmacy.
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According to the determination document, Hussain was “told at the time that his failure to make appropriate records was creating a risk” that patients would attend a local GP to receive a flu vaccine they had already been given.
But he “continued to fail to make records of flu vaccines that he had administered”, it said.
The GPhC said Hussain had breached two of its standards for pharmacy professionals - namely that they “must work in partnership with others” and “must speak up when they have concerns or when things go wrong”.
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It warned him that when providing care and treatment to patients, he “must make records of that care contemporaneously or as soon as practicable” so that “others involved in the patients’ care are aware of those treatments”.
And if Hussain “receives feedback or concerns about his practice, he should reflect on that and take appropriate action to prevent reoccurrence”, it added.
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The committee concluded that a warning was “the appropriate outcome in this case”.
The warning will be published on the register and available for 12 months, it said.
Read the determination in full here.
