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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Community Pharmacist Struck Off for Sexually Motivated, Clinically Unjustified Consultation and Touching of Patient
Allegations This case concerned a serious breach of professional and sexual boundaries during what the Fitness to Practise Committee concluded was an unnecessary and clinically unjustified pharmacy consultation. On 25 March 2024, Patient A attended a health centre and was assessed by a medical practitioner for an infection causing pain. Medication had already been prescribed. […]
13 September 2026
GPhC Suspends Polish Locum Pharmacist After Repeated Professional Boundary Breaches With Junior Female Colleagues
Allegations This case concerned repeated breaches of professional boundaries by an experienced locum pharmacist towards two young female members of pharmacy staff at different workplaces. Significantly, the incidents occurred after the registrant had already received a GPhC warning in November 2023 concerning strikingly similar issues: respecting professional boundaries, protecting the privacy and dignity of colleagues, […]
11 September 2026
Pharmacist Suspended for Unsafe Overseas Controlled Drug Supplies and Dishonest Customs Declarations
Allegations This case provides an important reminder that a pharmacist cannot delegate away their personal professional responsibilities simply because a service has been established or directed by a more senior pharmacist. During 2022, the registrant was one of two pharmacists working regularly at a community pharmacy that was also involved in a substantial overseas online […]
9 September 2026
GPhC Suspends Superintendent Pharmacist for Sexually Motivated Harassment of 17-Year-Old Apprentice
Allegations This case concerned serious professional-boundary misconduct by an experienced pharmacist who was the superintendent and owner of a community pharmacy in North London. The person subjected to the conduct was Employee A, a 17-year-old Level 2 pharmacy apprentice placed at the pharmacy through a college. The professional context was particularly important. Employee A was […]
7 September 2026
Pharmacy Technician Struck Off After “Mong” Bullying and Refusing to Engage with GPhC
Allegations This case concerned discriminatory and bullying conduct by a registered pharmacy technician towards a colleague in the workplace. The allegation ultimately found proved was that the registrant had, on one or more occasions, referred to an autistic colleague using the derogatory term “mong”. The conduct was characterised by the GPhC as both discriminatory and […]
6 September 2026
Online IP Pharmacist Found No Longer Impaired After Demonstrating Remediation and Safe Prescribing
Allegations This case concerned serious failings in online prescribing over a prolonged period and provides a particularly important learning opportunity for pharmacist independent prescribers, clinical leads and anyone involved in digitally delivered pharmacy services. Between November 2019 and July 2022, the registrant worked as a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber for an online pharmacy. Between approximately July […]
5 September 2026
12-Month Conditions on Pharmacist For COVID-19 Vaccination Site Failures
Allegations This case arose from the registrant’s involvement in establishing and operating COVID-19 vaccination services at a number of NHS-commissioned sites during 2022 and early 2023. The concerns covered both organisational governance and direct patient-safety matters. An important feature of the determination is that some of the most serious allegations initially advanced by the GPhC […]
4 September 2026
Verset Perfume Theft Pharmacist Granted Return to Practice Under Conditions
Allegations This case concerned a pharmacist whose fitness to practise had previously been found impaired because of dishonest conduct in a pharmacy setting. The August 2026 hearing was not a rehearing of those allegations. It was a principal review hearing considering whether the registrant had sufficiently remediated the concerns that had resulted in a four-month […]
29 August 2026
GPhC Case Review: Pharmacy Technician’s Controlled Drug Register Dishonesty Leads to Extended Conditions of Practice
Allegations This case provides an important illustration of the professional and regulatory consequences that can follow when controlled drug discrepancies are addressed by altering records rather than investigating, escalating and resolving the underlying cause. The registrant was employed as a pharmacy technician when a series of discrepancies arose across several controlled drug registers. Following a […]
28 August 2026
Hospital Pharmacy Technician in Scotland Struck Off Following Sexual Harassment of Mentee
Allegations This case concerned serious sexual misconduct by a pharmacy technician towards a colleague who was effectively beginning her first working day under the registrant’s mentorship. The registrant worked for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and had been assigned as the colleague’s mentor. That professional relationship was particularly significant because the Committee considered there to […]
26 August 2026