Crime
0A Northern Irish fitness-to-practise (FtP) committee has suspended a pharmacist for six months after he “unlawfully obtained” prescription-only medicines (POMs) from his workplace “without a valid prescription”.
0Two pharmacists have been struck off the register in separate hearings after being convicted of supplying controlled Class C drugs for their own “financial gain”.
0Sundip Gill could have received up to £40,000 in small business grants had he not been caught by City of Wolverhampton council’s counter fraud team.
1A pharmacist has been struck off the register after he was caught after sharing indecent images of children on an internet chatroom.
0A pharmacist who sexually assaulted two patients in pharmacy consultation rooms will serve two years in prison.
1A West Virginia jury has recommended that no “mercy” be shown to a pharmacist found guilty of murdering her husband to stop him from discovering her Ponzi scheme.
0The medicines watchdog has revealed that it seized more than 17 million doses of illegally traded medicines amounting to a “potential street value” of more than £40 million in 2024.
0A trainee pharmacist has been fined more than £1,000 after pleading guilty to posting a “grossly offensive” and “hateful antisemitic” message on social media.
0Tauqeer Azam has been found guilty of sexually assaulting one woman and directing “remarks of a sexual nature” to another while conducting medical examinations at two pharmacies.
0The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed that Boots’ parent company “systematically pressured its pharmacists to fill prescriptions quickly”, despite clear “red flags” and patient deaths.