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Statutory Committee inquiries

The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7232 p99
18 January 2003

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 Monday 20 January, Tuesday 21 January, Wednesday 22 January and Thursday 23 January 2003 to hear the following inquiries and applications:

Monday 20 January

1. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist which alleges that a dispensing error made by the pharmacist may, in the light of advice given by a Society inspector following an earlier similar error, amount to misconduct.

Tuesday 21 January

2. An inquiry into a pharmacist convicted of a number of offences resulting from failure to comply with Regulations made under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The inquiry also includes a complaint by the Council of the Society against the pharmacist, which alleges that the pharmacist's failure to comply with the provisions of Regulation 19 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985 amounts to misconduct.

3. An inquiry into a pharmacist convicted of theft of a quantity of Dexedrine and Ritalin tablets.

Wednesday 22 January

4. A resumed inquiry (adjourned from Wednesday 18 September 2002) 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, amounts to misconduct.

5. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist which alleges that the theft of prescription-only medicines from a pharmacy while that pharmacist was employed at the pharmacy as a locum amounts to misconduct.

Thursday 23 January

6. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist, which alleges that dispensing errors made by the pharmacist, amounts to misconduct.

7. An application for restoration from a person whose name was removed from the Register.

8. An application for restoration from a person whose name was removed from the Register.

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