Locum Community Pharmacist Suspended for Falling Asleep in the Pharmacy and Intimidating GPhC Investigation Patient

Allegations

The case revolves around a series of serious professional lapses by the registrant, a pharmacist, while working as the Responsible Pharmacist at Noor Pharmacy in Birmingham. The panel considered a range of misconduct allegations. Chief among these were two episodes of falling asleep while on duty—one in the dispensary in the morning and another in the consultation room in the afternoon of 2 July 2022. These lapses led to the pharmacy being left open and unattended, thereby placing public safety at risk.

Equally troubling was the registrant’s action of accessing and noting down a patient’s address—Patient A—outside of clinical records, which he admitted to doing. Most significantly, on 31 January 2023, he visited Patient A’s home after becoming aware of a formal complaint she made to the GPhC. Though he initially described the visit as coincidental and intended as an apology, the panel concluded that the visit was premeditated with the intention to dissuade her from engaging with the regulatory investigation.