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World news wrapup: 7 May 2020
Backlash after pharmacists left out of life assurance scheme; NZ pharmacies in financial peril; Welsh pharmacy calls police on English patient UK: Following outrage that pharmacists were not automatically included …
Impairment leads to issues with prescribing, vaccination advice
A health practitioner has been given less than a month to show why she shouldn’t be struck off the register, after a tribunal found she had engaged in unethical conduct …
‘Oversight’ leads to condition on registration
A pharmacist who failed to maintain professional indemnity insurance cover while he practised for four months has been found to have engaged in unprofessional conduct The pharmacist had been a …
Reprimanded pharmacist too tired to speak
A pharmacist was under pressure to limit dispensing time and sell add-ons when he stole medicines for family, a tribunal has heard A pharmacist has been reprimanded and ordered not …
Sentence reduced after claw hammer robbery
A man has had his sentence reduced for a number of crimes including the robbery of a pharmacy in which he stole, then later tried to sell, Valium Travers Hayward …
World news wrapup: 16 April 2020
Pharmacist in alleged plot to blow up rival store; city sector lockdown after pharmacist self-treats for COVID-19; pharmacist under investigation for alleged face mask hoarding and price gouging Virginia, US: …
Banned from practice until Nov 2021
A former pharmacist has been found guilty of professional misconduct over her running of an IV clinic in Sydney Former pharmacist Shadi Kazeme has been found guilty of unsatisfactory professional …
S8s case highlights ‘tragic and significant problem’
A GP and pharmacist has been suspended after his inappropriate prescribing of S8s painkillers and other drugs of concern The Health Care Complaints Commission prosecuted a general practitioner and pharmacist …
World news wrapup: 19 March 2020
Trump recognises pharmacy accessibility; pharmacist arrested for murder of romantic partner, also a pharmacist; store slammed for refusing asthma medicine delivery Washington, DC: A professor of public policy and international …
Lengthy fraud was ‘scream out for help,’ says pharmacist
A pharmacist has had his registration cancelled for 18 months after he defrauded more than $86,000 from the PBS The proceedings concerned fraudulent PBS claims the pharmacist had made for …
Looking closer at lease incentives
Are they repayable to a landlord if a tenant breaches the lease? Stephanie McGrath investigates An incentive is something offered to a tenant by a landlord when striking a lease …
World news wrapup: 12 March 2020
Robbed pharmacist plans to start support group; NHS warns of phone/fax scam; GP and pharmacist discuss pharmacist role Edmonton, Canada: After his pharmacy was robbed in January, pharmacist Valaykumar Rajgor …