Boots pharmacist struck off for touching morning-after pill mum's ‘intimate areas’

Pharmacist Sajjaad Patel has been struck off the register for touching a patient’s “intimate areas” for “sexual gratification” after incorrectly telling her she needed a physical examination to get a morning-after pill – although a court did not convict him for the incident. 

The GPhC “could not find any reason for [the patient] to fabricate what happened"
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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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