Statutory Committee decisions
Set out below are the outcomes of inquiries heard before the Statutory Committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain on Monday 23 October, Tuesday 24 October, Wednesday 25 October and Thursday 26 October 2006:
1. The Committee adjourned the inquiry into a complaint by the Council
of the Society against Bijal Vithalbhai Patel (registration number 84459)
and Greenoaks Pharmacy Ltd (identification number 1003087) to deliver
the determination at a later date.
2. Following the inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against
Tanusha Jeena (registration number 1078315) and Hiteshkumar
Vanmalibhai Patel (registration number F567), the committee directed that no further action be
taken against Ms Jeena. In relation to Mr Patel, the committee issued a reprimand
after finding proved the Council’s allegation that the supply of the
following against a prescription calling for (inter alia) 84 allopurinol tablets
100mg: (a) a manufacturer’s box marked allopurinol containing 32 allopurinol
100mg tablets, (being 28 tablets plus four additional tablets in a cut blister
foil bearing no batch number or expiry date) containing no patient information
leaflet and labelled as 28 allopurinol 100mg tablets; (b) a white carton containing
24 atenolol 100mg tablets and a patient information leaflet for allopurinol,
labelled as 28 allopurinol 100mg tablets; and (c) a manufacturer’s box
marked atenolol containing 28 atenolol 100mg tablets and a patient information
leaflet for atenolol, labelled as 28 allopurinol 100mg tablets; and a failure
to ensure that a retrievable record of the pharmacist taking responsibility
for the provision of each pharmacy service, amounted to misconduct.
3. Following the inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against
Owynn Llewellyn Ronald Baker (registration number 87556), the Committee issued
Mr Baker with an admonition. The committee found proved the allegation that
the theft of 72 dihydrocodeine tablets; taking without authority a patient-returned
pack of dihydrocodeine tablets; taking without the authority of a prescription
a quantity of amitryptiline tablets; the possession of a Class C drug, contrary
to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1972; and the possession of two offensive weapons,
contrary to the Prevention of Crime Act 1953, amounted to misconduct.
4. Following the inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against
Samuel Edwin Ashby (registration number R6879), the committee directed the
removal of Mr Ashby’s name from the register. The committee found proved
the allegation 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 of Great Britain; the dispensing of medicinal
products other than in accordance with a prescription; a failure to read the
Code of Ethics; the physical assault of a member of a pharmacy’s staff
and a failure to co-operate with the Society’s investigation into the
above incident, amounted to misconduct. Under Section 11 of the Pharmacy Act
1954, the direction to remove Mr Ashby’s name from the Register is not
to take effect until the expiration of a period of three months from the date
on which notice of removal was given or in a case where an appeal has been
brought against the direction, until the appeal is determined or withdrawn.
5. Following an inquiry, the committee directed that no further action be taken
against Michael Murray (registration number 67466) who was convicted of driving
a motor vehicle after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in
his breath exceeded the prescribed limit, contrary to section 5(1)(a) of the
Road Traffic Act 1988 and Schedule 2 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.
6. Following the inquiry into the case of Gillian Case (registration number
68186), who was convicted of driving a motor vehicle after consuming so much
alcohol that the proportion of it in her breath exceeded the prescribed limit,
contrary to section 5(1)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and Schedule 2 of
the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988, the committee issued Ms Case with a reprimand.
David Gomez
Secretary to the Statutory Committee |
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