A Cambridge pharmacist who supplied a cancer patient with 10 times the prescribed dose of morphine has been struck off.Achmat Rossier of Milton Road Pharmacy was “an unwarranted risk” to patients, a disciplinary panel heard last week.Mr Rossier had shown “a degree of arrogance” over the error, which he blamed on a pharmacy assistant, the panel said.A 71-year-old man died a few days after the incident in June 2006. No pharmacy staff were prosecuted as medical evidence could not prove the morphine supplied had caused the death. But Mr Rossier’s conduct rendered him unfit to practise as a pharmacist, the disciplinary hearing in London concluded. Panel chair Siobhan Goodrich said: “Afterwards he received advice from a Society inspector but didn’t act, displaying a degree of arrogance. He’s learnt little from 2006, believing he was a man betrayed by his dispensing assistant.”Mr Rossier admitted supplying the patient with 100mg morphine sulphate tablets against a prescription calling for 10mg tablets.Mr Rossier, a pharmacist for over 40 years, told the panel: “I have dispensed 2.5 million prescriptions and made only two errors. Improvements were made and I’m terribly sorry.”Simon Wiklund, for the RPSGB, said procedures that had been laid down were not complied with at the pharmacy.Mr Rossier had given the tablets in a tray, which showed when they should be taken. The tray had been prepared by his assistant.Concluding the hearing, Ms Goodrich said: “The events were very serious, involving multiple personal and systemic failures resulting in the death of a terminally ill man.”Mr Rossier has three months to appeal the decision.