Regulation
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”.
0The pharmacy regulator has issued a warning to a pharmacist who “engaged in unsolicited services from an unknown broker” for “financial gain”.
2In the first month of its updated guidance, the pharmacy regulator has already referred three individuals for fitness-to-practise (FtP) investigations for concerns around weight management drugs, C+D has learned.
12The pharmacy regulator has revealed that it has “opened an investigation into the concerns raised” by a coroner after a man who was unable to get his prescription died.
0A pharmacist has been issued a warning after accessing a patient’s contact details from medical records and sending them an “unsolicited” message on social media.
15A fitness-to-practice (FtP) committee has suspended a pharmacist for one month after he called a patient a “nutter” during a phone call with them and later refused to apologise.
1A pharmacist has been struck off the register after he was caught after sharing indecent images of children on an internet chatroom.
0A fitness-to-practise (FtP) committee suspended a pharmacist for 12 months after he frequently made “transactional” prescribing decisions and failed to “adequately examine the clinical need for medication” for patients.
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.
0The pharmacy regulator has considered using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ‘clone’ questions in part of the registration exam – and contemplated scrapping the calculations paper entirely.