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Obituary: Simon Driver

Former Cegedim Rx managing director, Simon Driver, died last week.

10 Sep 2025 , 2 Min Article

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Pharmacist who accessed ex-husband’s medical records without clinical justification warned

Kiran Rachel Lombardo also gained access to medical records of family members on a number of occasions “with only their verbal consent”.

08 Sep 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Pharmacist runs for charity after losing thigh muscle to rare cancer

GP pharmacist from Durham runs Great North Run on behalf of Sarcoma UK

08 Sep 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Pharmacist who made false insurance declarations to GPhC suspended for six months

Babak Gholamhosseini ran two pharmacies without appropriate professional indemnity insurance over extended periods.

04 Sep 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Pharmacist who gave child shingles vaccine suspended for four months

Kofi Akuamoah Boahene thought Zostavax was effective against chickenpox even though it was not listed in the patient group direction.

03 Sep 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Former deputy chief medical officer to chair CPE Committee

Former deputy chief medical officer for England, Professor Dame Jenny Harries DBE DL, succeeds Sue Killen as non-exec chair at CPE.

02 Sep 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Police hunt woman after seizing £32,000 of alleged fake Mounjaro and Ozempic

Detectives from City of London Police want to question Christina Parfitt, 40, in connection with the illegal sale of the medicines.

01 Sep 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Pharmacist who dispensed generic POMs against branded scripts warned by GPhC

Christian Charles Logue dispensed generic POMs when a branded version was prescribed and supplied lorazepam tablets at double the prescribed strength.

26 Aug 2025 , 1 Min Article

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PSNI suspends pharmacist in Northern Ireland who stole from employer

Hannah Belema Thom-Manuel was given concurrent custodial sentences of three months suspended for a year for stealing cash and toiletries.

21 Aug 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Pharmacy technician who falsified CD register entries given 12-month condition order

April Gibb was handed a three-month suspension by a FtP committee in May after admitting to 14 allegations of falsifying and retrospectively altering CD registers.

21 Aug 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Pharmacist who dispensed for online prescriber without conducting safety checks warned

Sajid Khan Rasool did not check if there were written prescribing procedures in place and if the online service recorded clinical interventions.

15 Aug 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Pharmacist who made dishonest pharmacy quality scheme claim warned by GPhC

Tajinder Singh Matharoo falsley insisted all eligibility criteria for the 2021-22 PQS had been met including the necessary training.

12 Aug 2025 , 1 Min Article

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University of Portsmouth awards Ade Williams honorary doctorate

Bristol pharmacist Adeyemi Williams has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Portsmouth, from where he graduated in 2002.

12 Aug 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Obituary – Bill Scott OBE FRPharmS

Bill Scott, who was chief pharmaceutical officer for Scotland for 22 years from 1993 to 2014, died last month aged 76.

12 Aug 2025 , 2 Min Article

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Pharmacist who dispensed two brands without SSP and committed CD breach warned

Christopher Serhat Ulus dispensed Medikinet 5mg tablets and Tranquilyn 5mg tablets against a prescription for Medikinet 5mg tablets without an SSP.

11 Aug 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Pharmacist who took Ozempic and diazepam from pharmacy's stock has suspension lifted

A fitness-to-practise committee concluded Marie Clair Boardman was “unwell and under severe stress" at the time of the incidents.

08 Aug 2025 , 1 Min Article

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