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Pharmacies banned from selling single-use plastic cotton buds
The ban on supplying plastic straws and stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton buds, which applies to pharmacies  in England, came into force last week...
05/10/2020 2
Timothy George Richards, registration number 2042355, can re-join the register after he pays fees
Ex-Lloyds manager struck off for £400k theft restored to register
Pharmacist Timothy George Richards – registration number 2042355 – was sentenced to jail for 40 months on December 2, 2013, for stealing drugs and...
01/10/2020 36
GPhC bumps pharmacy premises fees up to £365 from April 2021
The regulator decided to delay the introduction of the £103 increase until April 2021, after considering the pressures faced by the sector during the...
24/07/2020 22
Fitness to practise concerns up 28% in last two years, GPhC reveals
The regulator received 2,985 concerns in 2019-20, a 28% increase on the 2,329 concerns received in 2017-18 and 12% up on the 2,674 concerns in 2018-...
22/07/2020 9
GPhC: Current FtP model is “too often cumbersome, lengthy and inefficient”
Initiate FtP processes only if ‘absolutely necessary’, GPhC suggests
Some concerns do not need to develop into an entire fitness-to-practise (FtP) process, for example when they do not pose an “ongoing risk” or “where...
10/07/2020 7
GPhC: Pharmacists should follow “national public health advice and guidance”
GPhC: Coronavirus to be taken into account in FtP cases
Health and care professionals “may feel anxious” about the decisions they have to make during the outbreak and how these could be considered if...
06/03/2020 9
Pharmacy professionals have until March 31 to respond to the consultation
GPhC defends £103 premises fee increase for pharmacy
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has previously “covered some of the costs of the registration fees” for pharmacy premises owners out of its...
25/02/2020 6
Duncan Rudkin: "We need to make improvements in some areas of our fitness to practise processes"
Watchdog raises concerns over GPhC's fitness to practise process
Concerns over the “transparency and fairness” of some of the fitness to practise processes were raised by the independent statutory body in a review...
19/02/2020 9
Duncan Rudkin: "We need to make improvements in some areas of our fitness to practise processes"
Watchdog raises concerns over GPhC's fitness to practise process
Concerns over the “transparency and fairness” of some of the fitness to practise processes were raised by the independent statutory body in a review...
19/02/2020 9
Drugs would be taken from the pharmacy “by the van load” and sold illegally, the MHRA said
Pharmacy owner’s son jailed for dealing medicines
David Ihenagwa of Edmonton, north London, was found guilty of supplying class B and class C controlled drugs after purchasing them from a wholesaler...
29/01/2020 4

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