Statutory Committee inquiries
The Statutory Committee will meet at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1, at 9.45am on Monday
21 June, Tuesday
22 June and Wednesday 23 June 2004 to hear the following inquiries.
Monday 21 June
1. The committee will deliver its determination in an inquiry adjourned from
17 May 2004 into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a superintendent
pharmacist, a company and two pharmacists employed by the company which includes
allegations that the presence, at the company’s two registered pharmacy
premises, of large amounts of segregated and inadequately segregated out
of date medicines, the presence of large amounts of medicines of uncertain
provenance which were improperly labelled and where the date of expiry and/or
batch number were not present, some of the medicines having been deblistered
and/or repackaged, may amount to misconduct.
2. The committee will deliver its determination in an inquiry adjourned from
17 May 2004 into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist
proprietor and a locum pharmacist employed by him, which includes allegations
that the failure by both pharmacists to be truthful when interviewed by the
Society’s inspectors and their obstruction of an investigation into a
complaint received by the Society regarding an extemporaneously prepared product
at the pharmacy, may amount to misconduct.
3. The committee will resume consideration of an application for restoration
by a person whose name was removed from the Register.
4. An inquiry into the case of a pharmacist convicted of two counts of possessing
a Class B Controlled Drug, two counts of possessing a Class C Controlled Drug
and two counts of theft.
Tuesday 22 June
5. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against a pharmacist
which alleges that dispensing Neoclarityn in a container which was not labelled
with directions for use and being the pharmacist in charge of a pharmacy
when unfit to carry out properly his professional duties may amount to misconduct.
Wednesday 23 June
6. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against two pharmacists
which alleges that entering, occupying or taking possession of, or otherwise
seeking to interfere with, administrative receivers’ possession of
premises and/or property at the premises and interfering with any business
or activity of administrative receivers may amount to misconduct.
Mary Timms
Acting Secretary to the Statutory Committee |
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Pharmaceutical Journal