Legal
0A representative body has taken legal action against the government following MPs’ rejection of a bill amendment that would have exempted pharmacies from next week’s employer NICs hike.
0Members of parliament have admitted that they “have probably not spoken enough” about the assisted dying bill’s “impact on pharmacists”.
0The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) has announced it is in the “final stages” of “preparing” the case for those who made a complaint under the Boots Pension scheme’s dispute resolution procedure, which is set to “be submitted at the end of the month”.
1The pharmacy regulator has set aside an extra £0.3m for external legal advice as its fitness-to-practice performance falls from amber to red.
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.
2MPs have discussed a “centralised” assisted dying pharmacy service, amid calls from sector leaders for pharmacists to “opt in” to participation in assisted dying “rather than having to opt out”.
3A coroner has said that a pharmacy “should have sought to find a solution” when it “could not” supply a student with life-saving medication.
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.
0A Doncaster pharmacy worker has been “rumbled” after she created a “false identity” to speak to a prison inmate and steal medication.