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Statutory Committee inquiries

The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7227 p832
7 December 2002

Statutory Committee inquiries

The Statutory Committee will meet at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1, at 10am on Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 December 2002, to hear the following inquiries and applications.

Tuesday 10 December

1. A resumed inquiry into a pharmacist convicted of possessing a quantity of cannabis. This inquiry was first heard on 11 December 2001 and adjourned for 12 months.

2. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist which includes allegations that the pharmacist's failure to honour contractual commitments in June and September 2002 and the pharmacist's conduct while at work on two days in June 2002 may amount to misconduct. In addition to the new inquiry, the committee will also proceed with hearing the resumed inquiry adjourned on 15 January 2002 until December 2002.

Wednesday 11 December

3. An inquiry into a pharmacist convicted of obtaining property by deception. In addition the committee will 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 £40,000 amounts to misconduct.

4. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist which alleges that the pharmacist's failure to ensure that all medicines on the dispensary shelves complied with the labelling regulations and the supply of medicines to a patient from which the expiry dates had been removed with the intention of obscuring the fact that the expiry dates had passed, amounts to misconduct.

Thursday 12 December

5. An inquiry into a pharmacist convicted of driving with an alcohol level which exceeded the prescribed limit, driving without due care and attention and failing to stop after an accident. In addition the committee will also hear a complaint by the Council of the Society which alleges that the pharmacist's inability to discharge his professional duties while engaged as a locum amounts to misconduct.

6. A resumed application for restoration from a person whose name was removed from the Register, adjourned from Thursday 21 November 2002.

7. To announce the reasoned decision following the hearing of an inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist which included allegations that the dispensing of bisoprolol 10mg tablets labelled with a dose outside of normal prescribing limits, amounted to misconduct.

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