Fitness to Practise Cases
This archive contains General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Fitness to Practise (FtP) case summaries, detailing regulatory decisions affecting pharmacy professionals in the UK.
Each case provides insight into professional misconduct, errors, and ethical breaches that led to sanctions such as suspension, removal, or warnings. These summaries are valuable for:
- Pharmacists & Pharmacy Technicians – to understand common regulatory pitfalls.
- Employers & HR Teams – to learn about professional accountability and compliance.
- Pharmacy Students – to prepare for real-world ethical challenges in pharmacy practice.
Why it matters:
The decisions in these cases shape the legal and ethical landscape of pharmacy practice. Staying informed can help pharmacy professionals avoid similar mistakes and maintain high professional standards.
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Pharmacist Issued Warning for Repeatedly Accessing Patient SCR Without Clinical Need
AllegationsThe case involved serious concerns regarding the registrant’s repeated and unjustified access to patient information. Specifically, over a four-month period between 13 March 2024 and 16 July 2024, the pharmacist accessed the electronic health records of sixteen vulnerable patients a total of 388 times via the Derbyshire Summary Care Record (DSCR) system. Crucially, there was […]
21 November 2025
Pharmacist Warned for Unsafe Reciprocated Administration of Suspicious Homeopathic B12 Injection
Allegations This case involved a pharmacist who, while employed at The Medical Group between 2023 and November 2024, engaged in conduct that raised serious concerns about clinical and professional judgment. On an unspecified date between June and November 2024, the registrant administered a homeopathic vitamin B12 injection to a colleague (Colleague A) and received the […]
GPhC Clears Pharmacist After Unsafe Online Opioid Dispensing Model Leads to Suspension
Allegations The case against the registrant centred on serious failings in his management of an online pharmacy, Pronto Healthcare, which operated between October 2018 and April 2021. Initially serving as the director and later as the superintendent pharmacist, the registrant oversaw a high-risk, distance-selling business model. The pharmacy primarily supplied opioid analgesics and sedatives—controlled medicines […]
19 November 2025
Pharmacist Suspended for Breaching Confidentiality and Dishonest Flu Vaccine Documentation
Allegations This case concerned a pharmacist, referred to as the registrant, who faced multiple allegations of misconduct related to patient confidentiality, professionalism, honesty, and responsible conduct as a Responsible Pharmacist (RP). The most striking aspect of the case was the prolonged and serious nature of the breaches of confidentiality, including repeated sharing of sensitive patient […]
Hospital Outpatient Pharmacist Warned for Remote Dispensing via FaceTime or WhatsApp and Dishonest Record-Keeping
Allegations In a concerning breach of professional conduct, the registrant—acting as the Responsible Pharmacist at a hospital outpatient pharmacy in Wolverhampton—engaged in multiple practices that deviated sharply from accepted standards. Between May and August 2024, she arrived late for work on several occasions but falsely signed the pharmacy record to indicate punctuality. More troublingly, she […]
18 November 2025
Pharmacist Warned for Breaching Patient Confidentiality via Inappropriate Messaging
AllegationsThe case concerns a pharmacist who, while working as a locum in a retail pharmacy in Hereford, was provided with a patient’s contact information in the course of professional duties. Rather than limiting use of this information to clinical communication, the registrant used the details to send professionally inappropriate messages via messaging services. The messages […]
17 November 2025
Pharmacy Technician Suspension Expires After Theft of Aciclovir for Dating Website Man
AllegationsThe registrant, a pharmacy technician with a long-standing career at a single pharmacy, was originally referred to the GPhC for serious misconduct. Between April 2007 and July 2014, she removed a prescription-only medicine, Aciclovir, from her place of employment and supplied it to a man she met through a dating website. Crucially, she did so […]
16 November 2025
Pharmacist Sanctioned Over 85,000 Online Prescriptions Without Adequate Safeguards
Allegations This case revolves around the registrant’s conduct while working as both Responsible Pharmacist (RP) and Superintendent Pharmacist (SI) at an online pharmacy, UK Meds Direct Ltd, between 2017 and 2018. During this time, the registrant oversaw a staggering volume of prescribing activity: approximately 85,101 prescriptions, of which over 70,000 were for high-risk medications. These […]
15 November 2025
Pharmacist Suspended for Selling Stolen Pharmacy Stock on eBay
Allegations This case centers on a pharmacist who was accused of stealing stock from their place of employment and listing the items for sale on eBay. The misconduct occurred between July and August 2016 while the registrant was working as a pharmacist manager. Concerns were initially raised when colleagues noticed stock disappearing, particularly razor blades, […]
14 November 2025
Amlodipine Supplied Instead of Amitriptyline Results in Severe Patient Harm and No Pharmacist Sanction
Allegations This case involved a significant dispensing error that had considerable adverse consequences for a patient. On 30 June 2016, while working as the Responsible Pharmacist at a busy community pharmacy, the registrant dispensed Amlodipine 10mg tablets instead of Amitriptyline 10mg tablets. The prescription was for the latter, a tricyclic antidepressant commonly used in migraine […]
13 November 2025