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Statutory Committee inquiries

The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7240 p383
15 March 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 17, Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 March 2003 to hear the following inquiries and applications:

Monday 17 March

1. A resumed inquiry into a pharmacist convicted of possessing a quantity of cannabis.

2. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a superintendent pharmacist and a company which alleges that the dispensing errors made by the superintendent pharmacist, and his failure to deal appropriately with the matter when informed of the errors, in the context of previous advice and warnings concerning dispensing errors and his attitude when dealing with those errors, may amount to misconduct.

Tuesday 18 March

3. Resumed inquiries into a pharmacist convicted of driving with an alcohol level which exceeded the prescribed limit and a complaint by the Council of the Society against the 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, amounts to misconduct.

4. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a locum pharmacist and a pharmacist proprietor. The complaint against the locum pharmacist includes allegations that the method and equipment used in preparing an extemporaneous preparation for a patient were inadequate. The complaint against the pharmacist proprietor includes allegations that the pharmacist's failure to ensure that there were adequate equipment and containers in the pharmacy for use in making extemporaneous preparations and the absence of procedures for making and recording such preparations may amount to misconduct.

Wednesday 19 March

5. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a superintendent pharmacist and a company which includes allegations that the supply of Controlled Drugs by the pharmacy in the absence of a valid prescription at the time of supply may amount to misconduct.

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

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