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The week in review
As we get into the swing of 2021, issues around questioning worrying scripts, rural maintenance and the COVID-19 vaccine have come into play this week A pharmacist has been reprimanded …
‘Don’t be an automaton.’
After a pharmacist was reprimanded for dispensing a medicine which killed her patient, PDL offers some advice on discussing worrying scripts with doctors Earlier this week, the AJP reported on …
World news wrapup: 21 January 2021
Pharmacy allegedly bought 61 times the state average of fentanyl; actor asked to leave LA pharmacy for going maskless; customer queued at pharmacy and said they had COVID Cleveland, Ohio: …
CWH lease matter to head to WA Supreme Court
A high-profile pharmacist was set to lease a new pharmacy premises and even introduced the necessary doctor to the developer… but was then told the lease would go to a …
Council wanted $11k over advertising spat
The owner of a Melbourne pharmacy has been told to pay his local Council more than $5000 after he installed unauthorised billboards around his shop The Victorian Civil and Administrative …
The five legal obligations you need to know
A rundown for pharmacists on updated guidelines from Ahpra & the National Boards for advertising a regulated health service December 2020 saw the release of updated Guidelines from Ahpra and …
A ‘fundamental failure of responsibility’
A pharmacist’s registration has been suspended after he provided medicines, including S8s, on scripts he knew were not valid – and a doctor’s registration has been cancelled over the matter …
Missing methadone, forged scripts and a slew of restricted drugs
A pharmacy was investigated after its wholesaler noticed it “purchased amongst the highest quantities of high strength Fentanyl patches and high strength oxycodone tablets of any pharmacy in NSW” The …
World news wrapup: 10 December 2020
Insurance plan means pharmacy owner can’t use his own pharmacy; technician struck off after falsely claiming to be disaster victim; NZ pharmacies under scrutiny over cannabis prices London, England: A …
Censure across state lines
A pharmacist has been reprimanded in NSW for improperly obtaining medicines, just six months after he was struck off by a Queensland tribunal over stolen cash and drugs that led …
‘Your fall from grace is complete.’
A Welsh pharmacist has been struck off the register after he altered more than 1,500 scripts in a $137,000 fraud A General Pharmaceutical Committee Fitness to Practise Committee Principal Hearing …
Pharmacist assaults woman in consult room
A Sydney pharmacist pleaded guilty to a charge of sexual intercourse without consent Warning: this article contains details that may distress some readers Mainstream media have reported on the case …