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Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7452 p593
19 May 2007
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Statutory Committee inquiriesThe Statutory Committee will meet at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1, at 9.30am on Monday 21 May, Tuesday 22 May and Wednesday 23 May 2007 to hear the following matters: 1. The committee will resume its inquiry into a complaint by the Council
of the Society against Neil Hutchinson (registration number 79982) and
Carol Janette Hutchinson (registration number 79981) which alleges, in
relation to Mr Hutchinson, that: a number of dispensing errors; the supply
of a Controlled Drug, namely, 30 Concerta X tablets, against a prescription
for 14 such tablets; a failure to comply with the labelling regulations;
a breach of Regulation 19 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 relating
to record-keeping; a failure to supply a patient with his medicine and
the pharmacy’s failure to deal with the subsequent complaint appropriately;
the supply of medicine to a patient without reference to a prescription
or a copy prescription and without checking with the prescriber; an oversupply
of candesartan tablets and a failure to label this supply accurately;
a failure to keep a verifiable audit trail of the supply of prescription-only
medicines; the supply of medicine to a patient by reference only to previously
incorrectly supplied medicine and the labelling from an old monitored
dosage system pack; a failure to act in the best interests of a patient;
a failure to deal with a patient’s mother in a professional and
courteous manner; a failure as superintendent pharmacist to have in place
a system to identify each pharmacist responsible for particular supply;
a failure to heed the advice of the Society; a failure to have in place
adequate procedures for dispensing in monitored dosage systems; the pharmacy’s
inadequate procedures for dealing with errors and complaints; an unacceptably
dirty and untidy pharmacy; a failure to assess or remove date-expired
chemicals and/or medicines; the presence at the pharmacy of patient returned
medicines, including prescription-only medicines on a stairway to which
customers had access, in the stockroom and in the office; and the dispensing
of owings without reference to the relevant prescription, may amount
to misconduct. In relation to Mrs Hutchinson, the Society’s Council
alleges that: the supply of a Controlled Drug, namely, 30 Concerta X
tablets, against a prescription for 14 such tablets; a breach of Regulation
19 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 relating to record-keeping;
the pharmacy’s failure to deal appropriately with a complaint;
a failure of the pharmacy to keep a verifiable audit trail of the supply
of prescription only medicatines; the failure of the pharmacy to have
in place a system to identify each pharmacist responsible for a particular
supply; a failure to heed the advice of the Society; the supply of medine
to a patient using only previously incorrect medicine and labelling from
an old monitored dosage system pack; the pharmacy’s failure to
have in place adequate procedures governing dispensing in monitored dosage
systems; the pharmacy’s inadequate procedures for dealing with
errors and complaints; an unacceptably dirty and untidy pharmacy; a failure
to assess or remove date-expired chemicals and/or medicines; the presence
at the pharmacy of patient returned medicines, including prescription
only medicines on a stairway to which customers had access, in the stockroom
and in the office; and a failure to record maximum and minimum refrigerator
temperatures daily, may amount to misconduct. David Gomez |