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Car boot benzo sale pharmacist faces Tribunal
A pharmacist has been found guilty of professional misconduct, after buying benzodiazepines from another pharmacist out of a car boot in a high rollers casino car park In December 2016, …
World news wrapup: 10 June 2021
Amazon offers discount six-month scripts; pharmacist who spoiled vaccines sentenced; huge shortfall in pharmacists in UK US: Amazon has announced an offer of a six-month supply of 13 commonly used …
‘Burn-out’ led to dispensing errors
A pharmacist was censured and fined over $5,500 after he dispensed methadone without a valid script and allowed take-home doses when in-person dosing was required Stuff reports that an Auckland …
Grab for pharmacist’s $6m estate knocked back
Whether a dispensary constituted a “household” was one question raised in a case where a former cop faked a relationship with a pharmacist, to try and inherit his millions In …
‘Boundary breaches’ in misconduct case
Mainstream media have reported on the case of a pharmacist who had a relationship with a “vulnerable” patient and continued to dispense medicines to her The Victorian Civil and Administrative …
$87k in meds, perfume missing after manhole raid
A man has been sentenced to 138 days in jail after he broke into a pharmacy through a manhole in the hotel next door The Herald Sun reports that George …
‘We want reporting to be safe.’
Amendments to the National Law could make it an offence to harm, threaten, intimidate or harass a notifier, as changes are made following the attempted murder of a pharmacist Ahpra …
Three-year ban for ill pharmacist
A pharmacist with major depression said she was fearful for her job when she provided prescription medicines to her colleagues’ family and friends The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has …
House elf holds up pharmacy
A possible sci-fi/fantasy fan has held up a Runaway Bay pharmacy, while a man claims a ‘friend’ altered his Endone script Runaway Bay: Police have released CCTV as part of …
Pharmacist charged over alleged arson attack, DV
A Queensland pharmacist has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly set his partner’s home on fire Mainstream media have reported on a Queensland pharmacist whose case was mentioned …
Unethical and unlawful conduct
Conviction, fine and ban for health practitioner who presented a forged script at a pharmacy, misappropriated opioids and removed medicines from Webster-paks A Victorian woman has been reprimanded and banned …
World news wrapup: 13 May 2021
Stabbing attack in NZ supermarket pharmacy; man steals COVID-19 vaccine to have it analysed; Indian pharmacists left out in the cold Dunedin, New Zealand: A stabbing attack which saw three …