Community pharmacies must “carefully consider” safe care – GPhC
The General Pharmaceutical Council tells community pharmacies to ensure they comply with standards of safe care. Duncan Rudkin, Chief Executive and Registrar and Roz Gittins, Chief Pharmacy Officer and Deputy Registrar wrote: “We are writing to you at a time...
Pharmacist’s fitness to practise found not impaired
Our client, DC, like others, was under investigation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) relating to wholesale and online aspects of his business. He was, at that stage, one of the first...
New rules on the way medicines containing valproate
Pharmacists must ensure they comply, and can evidence, compliance with new MHRA guidance on dispensing of valproate-containing medicines to avoid GPhC sanctions. Your role and responsibility as a pharmacist, under the new legislation Under the new guidance...
No case to answer for online pharmacy owner
This was a large and complicated online pharmacy case. In what was one of the first substantive online pharmacy cases to reach a hearing, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) were taking an aggressive approach to what was, and still is, a new concept. Legal...
