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Pharmacist complaint leads to dentist censure
A community pharmacist shared concerns to regulators about the high number of oxycodone scripts from a dentist, leading them to uncover prescribing practices that “horrified” an expert witness A dentist …
Dispensing in the spotlight
Three pharmacists to front tribunal over dispensing practices The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) is prosecuting complaints against three pharmacists over their dispensing practices, the AJP heard at the NSW …
‘Egregious’ breach of legislation
A GP has been suspended for prescribing alprazolam, codeine, oxycodone and fentanyl without the proper authority A general practitioner from western Sydney has been reprimanded and suspended for six months …
‘Serious departure of professional standards.’
A health practitioner has been reprimanded and fired from her job after slapping an ICU patient in the face A Queensland doctor with 35 years’ experience under her belt has …
Prescribing without proper authority
A doctor has narrowly escaped deregistration after continuing to prescribe Endone to a patient for nearly three years, despite having his authority application rejected A Sydney GP and former practice …
‘Aggressive and inappropriate use of medications.’
Doc takes medical board to health practitioners tribunal over finding of unsatisfactory professional performance A doctor has lost an appeal after taking the Tasmanian Board of the Medical Board of …
Doctor struck off over assault
A leading doctor who was jailed for drugging and assaulting a junior colleague has had his registration cancelled The doctor, 67, who was a professor and a director of his …
‘Gross abuse’ of position
A doctor found guilty of indecently assaulting a female patient, and who prescribed the patient quantities of S8s knowing she was drug dependent, has been struck off A 62-year-old GP …
‘Not a fit and proper person’
A doctor who improperly supplied cephalexin to two different girlfriends to treat their UTIs, and engaged in sexual activity during hospital shifts, has had his bid for reinstatement denied A …
Doc altered registration certificate to order Botox
A GP has been reprimanded and suspended for creating false documents, using the names of staff members to obtain stock, and prescribing while unregistered A Sydney GP, who obtained his …
Doc reprimanded over ‘unethical’ conduct
A tribunal found the doctor had facilitated a car sale between his daughter and a vulnerable patient, and provided an affidavit for a patient’s ex-partner to use in family court …
Concealing the evidence
A locum pharmacist has been found guilty of professional misconduct for misappropriating morphine and codeine, and making false records to conceal the thefts A pharmacist working at a NSW hospital …