‘Overwhelmed’ locum suspended for four months over codeine payment mix-up

A locum pharmacist has been suspended for four months for removing bottles of codeine linctus from two pharmacies where he was working “without paying for them”, the regulator has said.

The GPhC accepted that the locum was “stressed and overwhelmed” at the time of the incidents
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