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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Date of Decision: August 6, 2020
Allegations: A series of Controlled Drug (CD) recording and dispensing errors over a three-month period, including supply under expired prescriptions, incorrect CD balances, and failure to record key CD data.
Aggressive behaviour towards a pharmacy manager.
Working without a supervisor or completing CPD as directed by the GPhC in prior fitness to practise decisions.
Failure to comply with multiple sets of previously imposed conditions, including non-submission of training, supervision, and development records.
Outcome: Nine-month suspension
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Date of Decision: July 2, 2020
Allegations: Engaged in a sexual act with another person in a public place.
Convicted of assaulting two police constables during arrest attempts following the incident.
Behaviour found to constitute serious misconduct, undermining public trust in the pharmacy profession.
Outcome: Formal warning issued
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Date of Decision: August 3, 2020
Allegations: Convicted of dishonestly making a false representation to make a gain for self/another or cause loss to others/expose others to risk.
Fraud involved obtaining around £75,000 in accommodation and support from a public sector organisation under false pretences.
Misled authorities, fabricated stories, and showed no evidence of remorse or remediation.
Outcome: Removal from the GPhC register
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Date of Decision: October 5, 2020
Allegations: Falsified colleagues’ signatures on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to make it appear that staff had been trained.
Backdated the false entries to create an illusion of compliance over time.
Delayed admitting to the misconduct until after internal investigation pressure.
Breached trust, endangered public safety, and misled both colleagues and the public.
Outcome: Two-month suspension from the register
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Date of Decision: April 16, 2025
Allegations: Incorrectly answered “No” to a question on an NHS England form asking if he was under investigation by a regulatory body.
Failed to confirm the status of an ongoing GPhC investigation before submitting the form.
Did not act dishonestly but showed a lack of care and professionalism.
Outcome: Formal warning issued
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Date of Decision: December 21, 2020
Allegations: Convicted of VAT fraud exceeding £1.8 million involving falsified invoices, fabricated export records, and dishonest representations to HMRC.
Played an active role in creating false documents and knowingly submitted fraudulent claims, despite warnings from accountants.
Sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment, of which he served part before release.
Outcome: Application for restoration granted
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