Struck-off pharmacist Anilkumar Ishverbhai Patel has failed in his bid to be restored to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) register after being struck off following a "shameful catalogue" of dispensing errors.Mr Patel, of Broadstone (former registration number 2023187), was removed from the register in 2007 after being found guilty of dispensing errors involving 13 patients.The charges also included malpractices involving methadone, as well as allegations that he had made false entries in the pharmacy diary to disguise his conduct.In the hearing at the GPhC on January 14, Mr Patel maintained that he had not been dishonest and applied for restoration to the register.But the regulator’s Fitness to Practise committee refused the application saying Mr Patel would need to show a "much higher level" of familiarity with practice developments and a "much more acute awareness of the degree of fault involved in his misconduct" to be restored.The committee said Mr Patel’s standards of practise at the time were "consistently lax, inefficient and over-casual".The committee accepted Mr Patel had displayed a degree of insight into his negligent practices but called the statement he gave supporting his application for restoration "vague" and containing "exaggerations".Mr Patel did not give oral evidence but denied the allegations of dishonesty.The committee said: "Bearing in mind the alarming number of errors which Mr Patel made in the course of his practice in 2004, the shambolic condition of his pharmacy when seen by the inspector at the time, the lack of insight to which I have already referred and the limited endeavours Mr Patel has taken to keep up to date in terms of knowledge of current pharmaceutical practices, in our view public confidence in the profession would be diminished if at this stage Mr Patel’s name was restored."The committee stressed this was not a final bar to the register and that Mr Patel could reapply in a year’s time with a higher level of knowledge.