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A superintendent pharmacist has been issued a warning by the PSNI after he claimed payment for 15 fentanyl prescriptions that were never dispensed.
Jeffrey Reaney, registration number 2317, submitted 15 requests for payment for dispensing the fentanyl patch Mezolar when it was not actually supplied, the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) fitness-to-practise (FtP) committee heard last month (September 7 and 8).
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