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 25 September, Tuesday 26 September, Wednesday 27 September and Thursday 28 September 2006 to hear the following inquiries:
1. The new inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against
Samuel Edwin Ashby (registration number R6879), which alleges that a
number of dispensing errors; unprofessional behaviour towards members
of staff, on occasion in the presence of customers; the removal of patient
returned medicines for his own use; the use of medicines not prescribed
for him; a failure to assist a patient appropriately; the use of aggressive
and offensive language towards an inspector and a pharmacist adviser
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society; the dispensing of medicinal products
otherwise than in accordance with a prescription; a failure to read the
Code of Ethics; the physical assault of a member of staff; and a failure
to co-operate with the Society’s investigation into the above incident,
may individually or cumulatively amount to misconduct.
2. The committee will resume the inquiry into a complaint by the Council of
the Society against Korush Jalali Farahani (registration number 1067185), which
alleges that the theft of a number of codeine phosphate tablets from a pharmacy
while working as a locum pharmacist, the possession of 14 Kapake capsules which
had not been prescribed for him, and the consumption of codeine phosphate tablets
and Kapake capsules while working as a locum pharmacist, may amount to misconduct.
The committee will also consider a conviction for the theft of 40 codeine phosphate
30mg tablets and 14 Zolpidem tartrate 10mg tablets of a value unknown belonging
to Superdrug Plc, contrary to Sections 1(1) and 7 of the Theft Act 1968.
3. The committee will deliver the determination of the inquiry into a complaint
by the Council of the Society against Omotayo Enitan Adekaiyaoja (registration
number 1062304), Martyn James Hardy (registration number 71137) and Sainsbury's
Supermarkets Ltd (identification number 1003528). In relation to Mr Adekaiyaoja,
the Council alleged that the supply of methadone mixture otherwise than in
accordance with the direction on a prescription; a number of erroneous supplies
made by Mr Adekaiyaoja or while he was the pharmacist in charge; the signing
of a dispensing label using the initials of another pharmacist; and a poor
understanding of diabetes and its treatment, individually or cumulatively may
have amounted to misconduct. In relation to Mr Hardy, the Council alleged that
a failure as superintendent pharmacist to exercise adequate control over a
Sainsbury’s Pharmacy may have amounted to misconduct. In relation to
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd, the Council alleged that the above allegations
against Mr Adekaiyaoja and Mr Hardy may have, individually or cumulatively,
amounted to misconduct.
David Gomez
Secretary to the Statutory Committee |
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