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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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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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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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Pharmacist convicted of causing death by careless driving given warning by GPhC

Muhammad Shuaib pleaded guilty to driving a mechanically propelled vehicle without due care and attention after it collided with and killed a 92-year-old woman.

07 Aug 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Support medicines relief in Gaza, PDA and NPA urge members

Organisations ask members to display charity fundraising posters in their pharmacies.

04 Aug 2025 , 3 Min Article

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MBE pharmacist hopes to provide chemotherapy from re-opened store

Ade Williams hopes to provide ADHD screening and chemotherapy from new Bristol site.

01 Aug 2025 , 2 Min Article

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Pharmacist in Wales saved my life, says woman diagnosed with sepsis

The patient, who sought treatment for a throat infection at Shackleton’s Pharmacy in Abergavenny, was seen by pharmacist Kyle Price.

31 Jul 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Coroner: Housing association could have confiscated excess medicine from vulnerable resident

Christopher John O’Donnell died from asphyxia due to airway obstruction by vomit and drug toxicity having taken a “substantial” amount of stockpiled methadone.

30 Jul 2025 , 1 Min Article

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GPhC chief executive to step down in December after 15 years

Duncan Rudkin became the General Pharmaceutical Council's first chief executive after its creation in September 2010.

30 Jul 2025 , 1 Min Article

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