Pharmacist restored to PSNI register with conditions 11 years after being struck off for controlled drug supply misconduct
Date of Decision: September 10, 2026
Registrant's Role: Pharmacist
Allegations:
- Over a period of approximately five years, the registrant supplied Dalmane, a controlled drug (flurazepam), to an elderly and vulnerable patient.
- The supplies were made without an appropriate record being kept.
- Dalmane was described as a medication that was not authorised for supply on the NHS in the circumstances considered by the original Committee.
- The supply was made concurrently with Zolpidem, which the patient had already been prescribed and was taking.
- The original Committee regarded the conduct as deliberate rather than accidental or isolated.
- There was evidence of concealment over a prolonged period.
- The conduct created an actual risk of harm to a vulnerable patient.
- The original Committee considered that the registrant had failed to demonstrate adequate insight at the time of the 2015 proceedings and found a risk of repetition.
Outcome: The registrant’s application for restoration was granted.
Case Summary
Allegations
This case concerned an application by a pharmacist to return to the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland Register approximately eleven years after being removed following serious professional misconduct.
The misconduct arose from the supply of Dalmane to an elderly and vulnerable patient over a period of approximately five years. The determination describes Dalmane as a controlled drug and records that it was supplied without a record being made. Importantly for pharmacy professionals, the case was not viewed as a one-off dispensing error, an isolated lapse in documentation or a momentary error of judgement. The original Committee found a prolonged pattern of behaviour involving deliberate actions and concealment.
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