Legal

Pharmacy workers lose right to tattoo without licence in Wales

Pharmacy technicians, students and pharmacists are among those who are no longer free to practise tattooing or body piercing without a licence, while exemptions around take-home naloxone have expanded.

‘Gross incompetence’: High Court orders GPhC to reconsider FtP case

The High Court of Justice has called out the “gross incompetence and unfairness” of the GPhC’s handling of a pharmacist’s alleged role in “fraudulent” medication sales overseas, ordering the regulator to “undertake the whole process again”.

Pharmacists must not ‘directly engage’ patients in assisted dying debate

The UK chief pharmaceutical officers (CPhOs) have set boundaries around pharmacist involvement in the assisted dying debate, amid calls for a “clear” role for pharmacists in the Scottish assisted dying bill.

Pharmacy ‘files case in High Court’ over Pharmacy First suspension

A Wembley pharmacy is “actively preparing” a legal case after being suspended from the Pharmacy First service, C+D has learned.

Man farming cannabis in ex-Lloydspharmacy dealt 12-month jailtime

A 27-year-old man has been jailed for 12 months for cultivating cannabis plants in a former Lloydspharmacy in Pembroke with an estimated street value of up to £500,000.

Boots pharmacists given Dec 5 pensions ombudsman dispute deadline

The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) has urged Boots pharmacists to submit internal complaints by the start of December so that they are “covered” by any “legally binding final decision” by the ombudsman on pension benefits.

Cannabis farm-acy: Police raid uncovers 600 cannabis plants in ‘old pharmacy’

A 27-year-old man has pleaded guilty of producing cannabis after nearly 600 plants were found at an old pharmacy building in Pembroke last week, local police have revealed.

Indie pharmacy to appeal order to pay employee £1.7k in ‘unpaid pay’

An employment judge has found that a pharmacy must pay an employee unpaid pay, holiday pay and notice pay – but the pharmacy plans to appeal, C+D has learned.

CQC to ‘pick up’ regulation of pharmacists prescribing from home

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is set to fill the “legal loophole” that currently leaves pharmacist-owned-businesses that are run from unregistered premises completely unregulated, the pharmacy regulator has said.

PDA chair calls on pharmacists to support doctors in scope-creep battle

PDA chair Mark Koziol has encouraged pharmacists to contribute to a doctor group’s legal war chest as they challenge their regulator on scope creep from MAPs.