Statutory Committee inquiries
The Statutory Committee will meet at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1, at 9.30am on Monday
21 March, Tuesday
22 March, Wednesday 23 March and Thursday 24 March 2005 to hear the following
inquiries and applications:
Monday 21 March
1. The committee will continue an inquiry from 21 February 2005 into a complaint
by the Council of the Society against Ghislaine Brant (registration number
70438) which alleges that the dispensing of excessive doses of diamorphine
against prescriptions written by a doctor, the failure to maintain appropriate
stocks of diamorphine in lower dosages, the failure to exercise sufficient
scrutiny of prescriptions for excessive doses of diamorphine, the failure
to exercise sufficient control over the product supplied; and the failure
to exercise the professional judgement and/or the objectivity of a reasonably
careful and competent pharmacist, the failure to act towards the doctor in
a way that was to the benefit and welfare of the public and patients and
the failure to discharge obligations as a pharmacist to patients may amount
to misconduct.
2. An inquiry into the case of Philip Terry (registration number 72613) who
has been convicted of theft and driving while unfit to drive through drugs.
Tuesday 22 March
3. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against Brian
Partridge (registration number 64916) which alleges that various failings,
including failings in relation to the storage of medicines, inadequate medications
labelling, dispensing errors, inappropriate behaviour towards customers,
the poor condition of the dispensary, absence of final checks before dispensing,
presence of Controlled Drugs on dispensary shelves, presence of date-expired
medicines and supply of methadone to a third party without patient authorisation,
may amount to misconduct.
Wednesday 23 March
4. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against Shital
Popat (registration number 84548) and P.I.L. Ltd which alleges that various
failings in relation to the presence of patient-returned medicines or medicines
that have been left uncollected for a significant period of time on shelves
in a monitored dosage system room (MDS), the presence of medicines not properly
labelled with batch numbers and/or expiry dates, the presence of temazepam
in the MDS room, unsatisfactory working conditions and failure to have in
place an adequate system of disposal of patient-returned medicines may amount
to misconduct.
Thursday 24 March
5. The committee will continue consideration of an application for restoration
by Rajendra Gulubchand Shah (former registration number 76470) whose name
has been removed from the register.
6. An inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against Domenico
Loiacono (registration number 1078636) which alleges that various failings
in relation to a dispensing error, failure to appreciate the difference between
fusidic acid eye drops, which were dispensed, and fusidic acid H/C cream, which
was prescribed, labelling errors, failure to make an entry in the Controlled
Drug Register and failure to give an adequate explanation to his employer regarding
this omission, and failure to check and refrigerate a supply of temperature
sensitive insulin, may amount to misconduct.
David Gomez
Secretary to the Statutory Committee |
The
Pharmaceutical Journal