Date of Decision: June 5, 2025
Allegations: Entering into an agreement with an unlicensed prescriber.
Dispensing high-risk medicines via an online service without adequate risk assessment or clinical oversight.
Failing to audit the prescribing service or ensure compliance with UK prescribing guidance.
Endangering patient safety through potential oversupply or inappropriate supply of medicines.
Outcome: Warning issued
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Date of Decision: June 5, 2025
Allegations: Inappropriate prescribing of a high-risk medication (propranolol) without access to Summary Care Record or independent verification
Failure to consider patient's mental health history
Prescribing based solely on an online questionnaire
Prescribing decision contributed to a patient's fatal overdose
Outcome: Warning issued
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Date of Decision: November 28, 2019
Allegations: Conviction for possession with intent to supply a Controlled Drug of Class C (Tramadol)
Conviction for possession with intent to supply a Controlled Drug of Class C (Zolpidem)
Conviction for possession with intent to supply a Controlled Drug of Class C (Zopiclone)
Conviction for possession of a Controlled Drug of Class C (Lorazepam)
Outcome: Suspension extended for a further period of six months
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Date of Decision: June 12, 2019
Allegations: Theft of general medical supplies from the pharmacy without payment.
Theft of Orlistat, a prescription-only medicine, from the pharmacy.
Dispensing and/or supplying multiple prescription-only medicines without valid prescriptions.
Failure to make any record of emergency supplies when applicable.
Dishonest conduct over a prolonged period.
Misleading subsequent employer and referee about the reasons for leaving previous employment.
Outcome: 12-month suspension order
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Date of Decision: November 29, 2019
Allegations: Conviction for making indecent images of children:
Two still Category A images
Four still Category B images
Four still Category C images
Outcome: Removal from the GPhC register
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Date of Decision: December 16, 2019
Allegations: Asked an individual to store pharmaceutical waste (DOOP bins) in his garage.
Requested that the same individual compile inventories of out-of-date medicines.
Intended to reuse medications that were expired.
Failed to ensure safe and effective storage of medication by instructing untrained individuals to handle pharmaceutical waste.
Outcome: Removal from the GPhC register
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Date of Decision: December 4, 2018
Allegations: Conviction for criminal offences involving theft of prescription medicines.
Assisting in the suicide of a vulnerable individual using stolen controlled drugs.
Breach of legal and professional obligations relating to the handling and use of controlled substances.
Outcome: Suspension from the register for 12 months
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Date of Decision: May 22, 2025
Allegations: On 17 February 2022, the registrant accessed Person A’s medical records via the Evolve system without consent or clinical justification.
The registrant then made inappropriate and offensive comments to Person A based on knowledge obtained from those records, causing them distress.
Outcome: Suspended for 3 months
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Date of Decision: January 16, 2019
Allegations: Convicted of forgery after creating a false gas safety certificate during the sale of a private business property.
Forged the signature of a gas engineer and submitted the document as part of a property sale.
The forged certificate was later discovered to be invalid, and the boilers were deemed unsafe.
The engineer whose name was used was wrongly implicated and suspended from work.
Outcome: 8-month suspension from the GPhC register
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Date of Decision: May 19, 2025
Allegations: Oversaw the dispensing of over 380 private prescriptions for high-risk medicines (e.g. opioids, Z-drugs) in under two months.
Failed to identify or manage risks associated with online prescribing from a third-party company.
Did not confirm the appropriateness of the prescribing process, or whether repeat and high-dose prescriptions were being monitored.
Did not ensure adequate SOPs or governance procedures were in place.
Admitted he was unaware of GPhC guidance relevant to distance selling.
Outcome: Formal warning issued
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