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Waiuku pharmacist Feras Dawood has been struck off and fined for attempting to frame a junior colleague for a dispensing error that resulted in a woman being hospitalised

Barrister acting for the Pharmacy Defence Association Janey Forrest along with the PDA chief executive Kurt Docherty speak out about what they believe was unnecessary disciplinary action taken against four pharmacists caught up in a fake script scam. They forwarded this letter to Pharmacy Today

Barrister acting for the Pharmacy Defence Association Janey Forrest along with the PDA chief executive Kurt Docherty speak out about what they believe was unnecessary disciplinary action taken against four pharmacists caught up in a fake script scam. They forwarded this letter to Pharmacy Today

The Pharmacy Defence Association is criticising the Pharmacy Council for its handling of the disciplinary action resulting from the case of prescription fraud that caught up multiple pharmacists in 2017.

The Pharmacy Defence Association is criticising the Pharmacy Council for its handling of the disciplinary action resulting from the case of prescription fraud that caught up multiple pharmacists in 2017.

A former Auckland pharmacy owner has been censured and ordered to pay $20,000 in costs after he claimed for repeat prescriptions patients did not collect and flushed medication down the toilet

Appearing before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal is nerve-wracking enough, but for the vast majority of pharmacists who appear, their name will be publicly connected to their misdemeanours for the rest of their careers. Yet, a new study shows this is not the case for other health professionals. Ruth Brown and Steve Hart report

This month, I’ve been busy delving into the workings of the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal and how and when it grants name suppression to erring practitioners

This month, I’ve been busy delving into the workings of the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal and how and when it grants name suppression to erring practitioners (read the story on page 16)

Appearing before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal is nerve-wracking enough, but for the vast majority of pharmacists who appear, their name will be publicly connected to their misdemeanours for the rest of their careers. Yet, a new study shows this is not the case for other health professionals. Ruth Brown and Steve Hart report