Legal
‘These powers will only be used in exceptional circumstances’
Unregistered practitioners—including suspended practitioners—can be prevented from treating patients under a suite of new Ahpra powers These new powers enable the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and National Boards to …
Teen robs pharmacies wielding hammer, box cutter
A boy who robbed two pharmacies in two days has escaped conviction The Supreme Court of Tasmania has heard the case of a 15-year-old boy identified only as HJR, who …
‘Endone meant to b destructed but I took it’
A pharmacist was leasing a home from his country town employer – and what they found there when he went on holidays sparked an investigation into the store’s stock The …
Suspended Supercar enthusiast mortgages home at 36% interest
A suspended Sydney pharmacist has mortgaged his home at a rate of 36% per annum, while a Supercars website run by his wife has disappeared from the internet The Australian …
30 oxycodone scripts in 88 days—and more
A pharmacist “failed in his role as gatekeeper” when he dispensed “vastly” excessive amounts of opioids and benzodiazepines to some patients, a tribunal has said The pharmacist appeared before the …
‘Particularly the chemist shop offence is serious’
A teenager, who was among a group which robbed a pharmacy armed with baseball bats and machetes, has now had his application to appeal against his sentence denied The Supreme …
Family violence inconsistent with being a ‘fit and proper person’
A former pharmacist, whose registration was suspended at the time, threw acetone on his partner and threatened to burn the other man’s home down The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal …
Regulation strengthened in the West
Changes to the National Law as it applies in WA have been passed and enacted The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and the national Boards say this means further strengthening …
Arrest after armed robbery
A man has been charged after he brought a fake gun to a pharmacy and demanded medication Manningham Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following an alleged armed …
‘Hospitals are death chambers,’ posted former GP
Former doctor faces tribunal over “abhorrent” comments about LGBTQIA+, Chinese and Muslim communities, other health practitioners and the former colleagues he called “like Nazis” and an “Orwellian battle axe” The …
Pharmacist claimed he had ‘thrown away’ excess S8s
A pharmacy owner’s store was one of the highest Victorian buyers of alprazolam in 2022, according to an investigation which showed he was self-medicating for stress over Covid-19 The pharmacist …
GP a ‘real danger to patients’
Despite pharmacies helping to identify and point out drug-seeking behaviour from two of his patients, a GP continued to prescribe them S8s and S4s The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal …