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 11 December, Tuesday 12 December and Wednesday 13 December 2006.
1. The committee adjourned the inquiry into a complaint by the Council
of the Society against Lyndon Lien Sun Wou (registration number 67470)
to deliver the determination at a later date.
2. The committee adjourned the inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the
Society against Ramanlal Ambaram Mistry (registration number 74751) and Mistry
Pharmacy Ltd (identification number 1084440) to deliver the determination at
a later date.
3. Following 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), the committee directed the removal of Mr Patel’s
name from the Register and further directed that no further action should be
taken against Greenoaks Pharmacy Ltd. In relation to Mr Patel the committee
found proved the allegation that: the submission of wrong claims to the Prescribing
Pricing Authority for payment resulting in overpayment to the company; the
operation of a system of work involving the alteration of endorsements on prescriptions
by a superintendent pharmacist who was not the dispensing pharmacist, at a
time and place remote from the dispensing of medication, and without consultation
with the dispensing pharmacist; the reliance upon the statement of a prescriber’s
member of staff rather than the prescriber himself in relation to the endorsement
of prescriptions for the contraceptive pill; a lack of professional knowledge
in relation to prescribing for and dispensing of the contraceptive pill; the
failure to keep his knowledge up to date in relation to endorsements and the
contraceptive pill; the failure to keep his knowledge up to date in relation
to endorsements and the Drug Tariff; the incorrect instruction as superintendent
pharmacist to a dispensing pharmacist employed by the company in respect of
dispensing against prescriptions for the contraceptive pill; and, the erroneous
completion and submission of untrue declarations contained in applications
for inclusion on a primary care trust’s list, amounted to misconduct.
Under Section 11 of the Pharmacy Act 1954, the direction to remove Mr Patel’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.
4. Following the inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against
Korush Jalali Farahani (registration number 1067185), the committee directed
the removal of Mr Jalali Farahani’s name from the Register. The committee
found proved the allegation 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 that had not been prescribed for him; and the consumption
of codeine phosphate tablets and Kapake capsules while working as a locum pharmacist,
amounted to misconduct. The committee also found proved a conviction for the
theft of 40 codeine phosphate tablets 30mg and 14 zolpidem tartrate tablets
10mg of a value unknown belonging to Superdrug Plc, contrary to Sections 1(1)
and 7 of the Theft Act 1968. Under Section 11 of the Pharmacy Act 1954, the
direction to remove Mr Jalali Farahani’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. The Committee adjourned the inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the
Society against Cyril Clement Daniel Siou (registration number 85068) to deliver
the determination at a later date.
David Gomez
Secretary to the Statutory Committee |
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