The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7410 p120
22 July 2006

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 24 July, Tuesday 25 July, Wednesday 26 July and Thursday 27 July 2006 to hear the following inquiries and applications:

1. The committee will hear the new inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against Bijal Vithalbhai Patel (registration number 84459) and Greenoaks Pharmacy Ltd (identification number 1003087), which alleges that the submission of wrong claims to the Prescription Pricing Authority resulting in an overpayment to the company of £16,509.67, the operation of a system involving the alteration of endorsements on prescriptions by a superintendent pharmacist who was not the dispensing pharmacist and without consultation with the dispensing pharmacist, a lack of professional knowledge in relation to prescribing for and dispensing of the contraceptive pill, the failure to keep knowledge up to date in relation to endorsements and the Drug Tariff, the incorrect instruction by the superintendent pharmacist to a dispensing pharmacist employed by the company in respect of dispensing against prescriptions for the contraceptive pill, and the dishonest and/or erroneous completion and/or submission of untrue declarations contained in applications for inclusion on the primary care trust’s list, individually or cumulatively, may amount to misconduct.

2. The committee will deliver the determination of the inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against Richard Gregory Woodroffe (registration number 68919), Margaret Mary Rita Gorman (registration number 67793) and Alan Woodcock Ltd (company identification number 1001329), which alleged that a dispensing error involving the supply of 100 Celance 1mg tablets against a prescription for 200 Pergolide 50µg tablets may have amounted to misconduct.

David Gomez
Secretary to the Statutory Committee