Date of Decision: March 3, 2025
Allegations: Failure to implement adequate governance and safeguarding procedures at a pharmacy dispensing Cannabis-Based Medicinal Products (CBMPs).
Operating without a Responsible Pharmacist (RP) on duty on multiple occasions.
Poor Controlled Drug (CD) management, including incomplete or missing records.
Allowing an unqualified company director to manage pharmacy operations.
Failure to store Schedule 2 Controlled Drugs appropriately.
Outcome: Registrant 1: Suspended from the GPhC register for 12 months (with review); Registrant 2: Issued with a formal warning.
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Date of Decision: January 17, 2025
Allegations: Approving and/or prescribing over 36,000 prescriptions through an online pharmacy, including high-risk medicines, without appropriate clinical oversight.
Failing to verify patients’ medical histories, GP records, or addiction history before prescribing.
Allowing patients to select medications before consultation, creating a risk of misuse.
Dispensing large volumes of prescriptions from an unregulated third-party online service.
Failing to implement adequate risk assessments, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and audits.
Failing to ensure regulatory oversight and due diligence of the online prescribing service.
Outcome: Suspension from the GPhC register for three months (with review)
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Date of Decision: March 3, 2025
Allegations: Failure to ensure adequate identity checks for patients requesting prescription-only medicines (POMs)
Permitting prescribing without appropriate safeguards, including failure to verify patient medical history or consult GPs
Operating a website that allowed patients to select medicines before consulting a prescriber
Continuing high-risk prescribing practices despite regulatory warnings
Failure to ensure EU prescribers had adequate indemnity cover
Outcome: Suspension from the GPhC register for eight months (with review)
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Date of Decision: January 9, 2025
Allegations: Conviction for an undisclosed offence at Cleveland Magistrates' Court
Failure to declare the conviction to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) within 7 days
Previous fitness to practise suspensions due to misconduct and conviction
Failure to engage with the GPhC's required remediation process
Outcome: Suspension from the GPhC register for six months
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Date of Decision: November 13, 2024
Allegations: Ordering and supplying large volumes of codeine linctus without adequate risk management
Failing to implement controls to prevent patient misuse or addiction
Supplying codeine linctus to two individuals despite clear signs of misuse
Failing to complete required training and reflective practice following prior conditions
Outcome: Suspension from the GPhC register for three months
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Date of Decision: February 4, 2025
Allegations: Prescribed medicines on 62,689 occasions using an online questionnaire-based model.
Prescribed high-risk medicines on 4,859 occasions using an online questionnaire-based model.
Failed to obtain adequate patient information and relied on online questionnaires.
Did not access or attempt to access patients' GP records.
Failed to request face-to-face consultations.
Did not consider medication dependence and misuse.
Prescribed in circumstances where the prescribing model was incapable of supporting safe decisions.
Prescribed a significant portion of prescriptions without sufficient time for clinical evaluation.
Prescribed propranolol and amitriptyline in unsafe circumstances leading to patient deaths.
Transactional approach to prescribing, prioritizing commercial transactions over patient safety.
Outcome: Suspension for 12 months with review
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Date of Decision: January 17, 2025
Allegations: Supply of Zopiclone and Zolpidem, both Class C controlled drugs, without a prescription
Falsification of records related to drug supply
Failure to report concerns regarding the misuse of controlled drugs
Lack of insight and failure to take responsibility for actions
Outcome: Removal from the GPhC register
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Date of Decision: January 17, 2025
Allegations: Removal of Ozempic from the pharmacy without a valid prescription or payment
Theft of diazepam from the pharmacy for personal use without a prescription or payment
Self-administration of diazepam while at work
Attending work while unfit to practice due to health issues
Dishonest conduct in removing medication without authorization
Outcome: Suspension from the GPhC register for six months
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Date of Decision: February 20, 2025
Allegations: Supply of a controlled drug (Class C) on multiple occasions
Making an implement for forgery with intent
Outcome: Removal from the GPhC register
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Date of Decision: February 11, 2025
Allegations: Possession of an extreme pornographic image portraying assault by penetration
Making indecent photographs/pseudo-photographs of a child
Outcome: Removal from the register
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