Date of Decision: May 19, 2025
Allegations: Entered into a contract with a third-party provider to dispense high-risk private prescriptions without conducting adequate safety checks.
Dispensed over 380 prescriptions for opioids, Z-drugs, and other misuse-prone medications over a 7-week period.
Failed to ensure that prescribing was clinically appropriate or in line with UK guidance.
Did not seek adequate indemnity advice or put in place proper SOPs or governance.
Was unaware of GPhC distance-selling guidance at the time.
Outcome: Formal warning issued
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Date of Decision: May 19, 2025
Allegations: Approved prescriptions for high-risk medications (e.g. opiates, Z-drugs, propranolol, amitriptyline, weight-loss and asthma medicines) based solely on online questionnaires.
Failed to obtain confirmation of diagnoses or medical histories from patients’ GPs or other independent sources.
Did not take appropriate steps to safeguard vulnerable patients or consider risks of abuse and dependence.
Prescribed to patients who had already received multiple similar prescriptions from other prescribers on the same platform.
Outcome: Formal warning issued
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Date of Decision: May 8, 2025
Allegations: Falsified multiple entries in Controlled Drug (CD) registers, including adding fictional stock and altering quantities.
Made false entries about CD supplies to patients who had not received medication.
Failed to ensure amendments were witnessed, as required by law.
Conduct was found to be dishonest, though not for personal gain.
Occurred over several months while working under pressure and without support.
Outcome: 3-month suspension
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Date of Decision: June 1, 2020
Allegations: Failed to document or communicate a known contraindication (carbamazepine with clozapine) for a patient.
Failed to complete medicines reconciliation on hospital admission.
Failed to adequately check prescription charts and Mental Health Act forms across multiple patients.
Led to unauthorised or incorrect medication administration for several patients.
Recorded incorrect BNF code and missed omissions in urgent treatment documentation.
Outcome: Previously subjected to 18-month conditional registration
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Date of Decision: May 8, 2025
Allegations: Carried out independent prescribing and dispensing without informing the pharmacy or obtaining authorisation, over a period of two years.
Failed to review clinical histories, document decisions, or notify patients’ GPs.
Self-prescribed and supplied himself with a year's worth of medication on three occasions, without exceptional circumstances.
Prescribed and supplied a Schedule 3 controlled drug without following legislation and guidance.
Did not maintain adequate indemnity insurance for prescribing activities.
Outcome: Formal warning issued
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Date of Decision: April 17, 2025
Allegations: Supplied diazepam and codeine-containing medicines to family members without prescriptions.
Self-medicated using codeine linctus taken from the pharmacy without authorisation or documentation.
Consumed alcohol while on duty in the pharmacy, impairing his judgement.
Failed to supply diazepam to a care home resident, later admitting he took the medication home.
Told a patient with dementia to call back later because “she wouldn’t remember” anyway.
Outcome: Suspension from the register for 3 months
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Date of Decision: April 28, 2025
Allegations: Approved or prescribed over 36,000 prescriptions for high-risk or monitoring-dependent medicines via UK Meds’ online platform, relying solely on online questionnaires.
Failed to perform adequate clinical assessments, access GP records, or request face-to-face consultations.
Oversaw the dispensing of nearly 55,000 prescriptions at his pharmacy without sufficient due diligence or risk assessment.
Entered into a commercial arrangement with UK Meds despite knowing their prescribing model lacked UK regulatory oversight.
Outcome: No further order. Suspension expired with no ongoing impairment.
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Date of Decision: April 28, 2025
Allegations: Dispensed high-risk and prescription-only medicines based on online questionnaires alone, without proper clinical safeguards.
Failed to conduct due diligence on the online prescribing service and its prescribers.
Did not ensure appropriate risk assessments, GP involvement, or monitoring systems were in place.
Failed to properly maintain the private prescriptions register and did not uphold patient safety standards.
Outcome: Formal warning issued
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Date of Decision: April 28, 2025
Allegations: Supplied Oramorph, a Schedule 5 Controlled Drug and prescription-only medicine (POM), to another healthcare professional without a valid prescription.
Failed to meet the legal criteria for an emergency supply and did not create a proper audit trail.
Did not attach a dispensing label or retain a legally required record.
Outcome: Formal warning issued
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Date of Decision: November 26, 2020
Allegations: Attended work as a pharmacist while under the influence of cocaine.
Admitted cocaine use on multiple occasions.
Failed to cooperate with the GPhC’s health procedures, including refusing to take a drugs test.
Engaged with proceedings after nearly two-and-a-half years of disengagement, but failed to provide objective evidence of abstinence.
Outcome: Suspension extended for four months
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