Legal

The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) has begun an employment tribunal claim on behalf of pharmacists who were left in the lurch when their employer declared itself insolvent, it has revealed.

A 27-year-old pharmacist has been sentenced after he “abused his position of trust” and stole pregabalin, diazepam, co-codamol and codeine phosphate from the pharmacy where he worked.

Pharmacy technicians, students and pharmacists are among those who are no longer free to practise tattooing or body piercing without a licence, while exemptions around take-home naloxone have expanded.

The High Court of Justice has called out the “gross incompetence and unfairness” of the GPhC’s handling of a pharmacist’s alleged role in “fraudulent” medication sales overseas, ordering the regulator to “undertake the whole process again”.

The UK chief pharmaceutical officers (CPhOs) have set boundaries around pharmacist involvement in the assisted dying debate, amid calls for a “clear” role for pharmacists in the Scottish assisted dying bill.

A Wembley pharmacy is “actively preparing” a legal case after being suspended from the Pharmacy First service, C+D has learned.

A 27-year-old man has been jailed for 12 months for cultivating cannabis plants in a former Lloydspharmacy in Pembroke with an estimated street value of up to £500,000.

The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) has urged Boots pharmacists to submit internal complaints by the start of December so that they are “covered” by any “legally binding final decision” by the ombudsman on pension benefits.

A 27-year-old man has pleaded guilty of producing cannabis after nearly 600 plants were found at an old pharmacy building in Pembroke last week, local police have revealed.

An employment judge has found that a pharmacy must pay an employee unpaid pay, holiday pay and notice pay – but the pharmacy plans to appeal, C+D has learned.