Legal
GP who attacked pharmacist receives ‘longest ever ban’
A doctor jailed over the attempted murder of a pharmacist, who had notified Ahpra about his improper prescribing practices, has been slapped with an effective lifetime ban A South Australian …
TGA ponders legal action over Kelly texts
Regulator concerned over spurious COVID-19 information sent by controversial MP The Therapeutic Goods Administration is looking at potentially taking legal action under the Criminal Code after controversial MP Craig Kelly …
‘Contumelious disregard’ for obligations
A pharmacist has been banned from working in any health service after he dispensed medicines to employees and repeatedly supplied off-label drugs A pharmacist has had his registration cancelled and …
$18k bill for regulator’s costs
An unemployed pharmacist has said his pharmacies “deteriorated into unviable businesses” while his registration was suspended, hoping to pay reduced legal costs The Civil and Administrative Tribunal NSW has made …
‘No point’ in more conditions on pharmacist’s cancelled rego
A pharmacist’s complete failure to engage with the regulatory process after the consequences of a labelling error has led to the cancellation of her registration A Melbourne pharmacist has been …
No-show pharmacist likely to lose rego
A pharmacist has claimed that being “distracted and very busy” caused her to give tramadol to a patient after hours The mainstream media has reported on the case of a …
Impairment stands
A healthcare practitioner has lost her appeal to be reinstated, with a second consecutive four-year ban imposed due to impairment A specialist doctor who was struck off the register in …
Jailed pharmacist ‘another victim of a rapacious shopping centre landlord’
A veteran pharmacist has been reprimanded but will be able to reapply for registration when he leaves jail, after making false PBS claims on high-cost drugs The Queensland Civil and …
Mystery of the missing meds
A Tribunal has heard of a pharmacist’s “flagrant” breaches of obligation including dispensing drugs of addiction on forged scripts, being unable to account for thousands of Endone and Duromine tablets, …
$60k stolen drug, formula profit paid for pharmacist’s coke habit
A pharmacist said he was at “rock bottom,” grieving and addicted to cocaine when he sold HIV drugs for his own personal gain In March 2019, the Sydney pharmacist’s registration …
65-hour weeks his downfall, says jailed pharmacist
A pharmacist who had to sell his store at a “monstrous loss” after his suspension has now been jailed for 22 months The West Australian has reported on the case …
Stolen credit card details used to pay for school & registration fees
The regulator has spotlighted health practitioners reprimanded, suspended or banned over drug misappropriation, inappropriate prescribing, theft and forged scripts Ahpra has recently published findings on a range of tribunal decisions …