The General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) fitness-to-practise (FtP) committee made the ruling at hearings held on March 13-16 and June 6-8.
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‘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.
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