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'Disgraceful' pharmacy technician struck off for selling stolen test strips on eBay

 
• By Kate Bowie

A pharmacy technician has been struck off the register for reselling stolen blood sugar tests on eBay and for breaching GDPR by storing “thousands” of prescriptions in her car boot, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has revealed. 

Glucose test strips
Police also found boxes of medication and a bag of 2,068 prescriptions in Ms Mehmi’s home
Kate Bowie

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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