Discipline

A pharmacist who engaged in a harassment campaign against his former employers and provided false information to a professional conduct committee set up to investigate him has had his registration canceled and been ordered to pay over $14,000

The deputy health and disability commissioner has asked a pharmacist to apologise to a deceased patient’s family and told a pharmacy to amend its procedures after the pharmacist failed to pick up an intern’s dispensing error

The Health Practitioners’ Disciplinary Tribunal has found Auckland pharmacist Nee Nee Ong guilty of most aspects of a charge of professional misconduct, including checking scripts remotely while overseas on a cruise.

A tribunal has found an Auckland pharmacist did most of what she was accused of in a charge brought by the Pharmacy Council’s Professional Conduct Committee, including checking scripts via Skype while overseas on a cruise

Te Whatu Ora has recovered more than $680,000 from pharmacies that claimed inappropriately for the schizophrenia injection paliperidone and says this may not be the only drug incorrectly dispensed and claimed for

Te Whatu Ora has recovered more than $680,000 from pharmacies that claimed inappropriately for the schizophrenia injection paliperidone and says this may not be the only drug incorrectly dispensed and claimed for

Pharmacist and non-practising lawyer Máté Hegedus-Gaspar explains the professional perils of short-staffed pharmacies

Pharmacist and non-practising lawyer Máté Hegedus-Gaspar explains the professional perils of short-staffed pharmacies

The case of ADHD specialist GP Tony Hanne excited much comment last month, not least from pharmacy owner Ian McMichael who is concerned about the impact of bad prescribing on pharmacists and potential liability, writes Jonathan Chilton-Towle

The case of ADHD specialist GP Tony Hanne excited much comment last month, not least from pharmacy owner Ian McMichael who is concerned about the impact of bad prescribing on pharmacists and potential liability, writes Jonathan Chilton-Towle