The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7501 p577
10 May 2008

Disciplinary Committee

The Disciplinary Committee will meet at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1, on Monday 12, Tuesday 13, Wednesday 14, Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May 2008 at 9.30am to hear the following matters:

1. An application for restoration to the Register on behalf of Bharatkumar Ramanbhai Patel, of Ramsgate, Kent.

2. The Statutory Committee inquiry into Mohammad Amir Yasin (registration number 1072446) who on 11 October 2006 was convicted at Manchester Magistrates’ Court of six counts of theft and four counts of possessing a Class C drug.

3. The Statutory Committee inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against Jawid Ahmed Yusuf (registration number 84208) which alleges that Mr Yusuf: (i) altered NHS prescriptions so as to change the ostensible supply to be made without seeking the authority or having the permission of the authorising doctor concerned; forged the signature of the authorising doctor on the above prescriptions; falsified each of the prescriptions above dishonestly knowing that if it was forwarded to the NHS Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA) for payment it would attract a higher payment than if it had not been altered; by falsifying the prescriptions above Mr Yusuf put the owner of the pharmacy and/or the patients concerned at risk of investigation by the police and other regulatory bodies; (2) altered NHS prescriptions for temazepam without the permission of the authorising doctor concerned; forged the signature of the authorising doctor; by falsifying the above prescriptions Mr Yusuf put the owner of the pharmacy and/or the patients concerned at risk of investigation by the police and other regulatory bodies; (3) altered an NHS prescription for temazepam so as to increase the ostensible supply to be made without the permission of the authorising doctor; forged the signature of the authorising doctor on that prescription; falsified the prescription dishonestly knowing that if was forwarded to the PPA for payment it would attract a higher payment than if it had not been altered; by falsifying the prescription Mr Yusuf put the owner of the pharmacy and/or the patient concerned at risk of investigation by the police and other regulatory bodies.

The Disciplinary Committee will meet at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1, on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 May 2008 at 9.30am to resume the Statutory Committee inquiry into a complaint by the Council of the Society against Kantilal Khushalbhai Mistry (registration number 74015) which alleges that: a failure to submit to the NHS Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA) 18 FP10 prescription forms relating to low cost items; treating small value prescriptions as private prescriptions, but failing to keep a record of the sales or supplies made against those prescriptions; endorsing 18 NHS prescriptions to indicate that 18 packs of Benzamycin gel in quantities of 46.6g had been supplied when quantities of 23g had been supplied and submitting the wrongly endorsed prescriptions to the PPA for payment, resulting in overpayment; endorsing NHS prescriptions for Gaviscon Liquid, Oilatum, Liquid Paraffin and E45 Cream to indicate that small pack sizes had been dispensed, when in fact large pack sizes had been dispensed; submitting the wrongly endorsed prescriptions to the PPA for payment, resulting in overpayment; and, regularly dispensing duplicate prescriptions and submitting them to the PPA for payment without querying the prescribing practice, may amount to misconduct.

Statutory Committees Secretariat