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Statutory Committee inquiries

The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7215 p379
14 September 2002

Statutory Committee inquiries

The Statutory Committee will meet at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1, from Monday 16 to Thursday 18 September 2002, at 10am on each day, to hear the following inquiries and applications:

Monday 16 September

1. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist which alleges that the supply of 535ml of sucralfate liquid without the authority of a prescription, the supply of Percutol 2 per cent ointment against a prescription calling for GTN 0.2 per cent ointment and breaches of the legislation relating to the supply of prescription only medicines, amount to misconduct.

Tuesday 17 September

2. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist which includes allegations that the storage at home of waste medicines, possession of temazepam at home without authority, unaccounted-for discrepancies between the amount of temazepam returned for destruction and that found at the pharmacist's home and the dispensing of prescriptions, including prescriptions for Controlled Drugs which had not been signed by a practitioner, amount to misconduct. The Committee will also hear the resumed inquiry into the same pharmacist adjourned for two years from 13 March 2001.

3. An inquiry into the case of a pharmacist convicted of obtaining property by deception. In addition the Committee will also hear a complaint by the Council of the Society against the pharmacist which alleges that the system of endorsing prescriptions adopted by the pharmacist whereby he obtained an overpayment from the Prescription Pricing Authority of a sum estimated to be about £20,000 amounts to misconduct.

Wednesday 18 September

4. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist proprietor and his locum pharmacist which alleges that the sale without prescription of a quantity of co-proxamol tablets amounts to misconduct. The complaint against the pharmacist proprietor also includes allegations that the failure to account by means of valid prescriptions or emergency supplies for co-proxamol and Rohypnol supplied from the pharmacy and failure to ensure that all medicines possessed for the purpose of sale or supply are properly licensed amount to misconduct.

Thursday 19 September

5. An application for restoration from a person whose name has been removed from the Register.

6. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist which includes allegations that the pharmacist's failure to ensure that a pharmacist was present at the pharmacy from the opening time of 9am on specified dates, failures to ensure compliance with the requirements for recording supplies of Controlled Drugs, private prescriptions and emergency supplies and presence of date expired stock or medicines without batch numbers and/or expiry dates on the dispensary shelves, amount to misconduct.

M. B. PAWLUCZYK (Mrs)
Secretary to the Statutory Committee