Discipline

A pharmacist has been reprimanded by the Health and Disability Commissioner for a dispensing error, this time for mistakenly giving a patient the anticholesterol medication ezetimibe instead of the cancer medication exemestane.

Máté Hegedus-Gaspar takes a close look at an HDC case, where a baby was incorrectly dispensed methadone, to extract lessons for pharmacists and technicians

Another pharmacist has been reprimanded by the Health and Disability Commissioner for a dispensing error, this time for mistakenly giving a patient the anti-cholesterol medication ezetimibe instead of the cancer medication exemestane. 

Specialist GP Tony Hanne has accepted three of five particulars of a wider charge of professional misconduct being made against him by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal

Pharmacist and non-practising legal expert Máté Hegedus-Gaspar looks at how to handle dispensing errors to limit damage and hopefully forestall disciplinary action

Auckland pharmacist El-Fadil Kardaman has had his registration cancelled and been ordered to pay more than $29,000 by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal after he refused to comply with a previous ruling against him

Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports on an HDC case where a woman prescribed sodium valproate later became pregnant

Pharmacist and non-practising legal expert Máté Hegedus-Gaspar looks at how to handle dispensing errors to limit damage and hopefully forestall disciplinary action

New research will hopefully uncover the drivers behind pharmacist misconduct in New Zealand in order to pre-empt complaints and provide insight into at-risk areas of practices 

Deputy health and disability commissioner Rose Wall has made recommendations to improve accessibility of information about the anti-seizure medicine sodium valproate and the risk it poses to unborn children