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Falsely claiming to be registered erodes public trust in health practitioners, says Pharmacy Board A New South Wales pharmacist who continued to practise after his registration was suspended has been …

He claimed he was threatened by an unknown man A pharmacist reportedly wrote out a prescription for codeine after he was threatened, according to the Swindon Advertiser. Lawyers for the …

Felt art pharmacy so convincing that patients try to buy medicines; overwhelming response to fundraiser in the name of pharmacist who died of COVID-19; Dublin court “at a loss” over …

The days of doctors deciding what patients should know or consent to are “long gone,” a tribunal has noted in imposing protective orders on a former pharmacist A former pharmacist …

A GP is set to be disciplined over reckless prescribing of opioids, and inappropriately disclosing a patient’s extramarital affair A NSW tribunal has found a Central Coast GP guilty of …

Man sentenced for offences, including threatening a pharmacist, needed help with his medicines The ABC reports that John Saether went to a Rosetta pharmacy in April 2020 and said he …

A pharmacist has had his bid to reinstate his registration knocked back in a Tribunal hearing which noted that his former store now belonged to his son In June 2018, …

A pharmacist has been struck off the register for failing to question doctors over excessive prescribing, and dispensing dangerous combinations and amounts of drugs A pharmacist proprietor from western Sydney, …

A GP has denied that his clinics were “just a vending machine for peptides” The Health Care Complaints Commission has issued a statement regarding Dr John Hart, a GP and …

What are the latest developments that pharmacists need to know? Stephanie McGrath explains The Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Cth) permits transactions to occur electronically. However, this legislation does not apply …

Practitioner found guilty of profession misconduct for stealing restricted drugs and making fraudulent entries in medicine registers An enrolled nurse working in the emergency department of a Queensland hospital has …

Following a conviction for stealing drugs including oxycodone and Ritalin, and on-selling diazepam to a man who later took his own life, a pharmacist is now facing a re-started Ahpra …