Discipline

A pharmacist who had separated from her husband became “obsessed” with his new partner and repeatedly accessed her medical records without authority, a Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal report says

A GP has been criticised after prescribing a patient with a long history of mental illness a potentially dangerous amount of antidepressants 

Christchurch pharmacist Simon James Blue, who "misappropriated" nearly 7000 Ritalin tablets, has been censured and ordered to pay over $8000 after he practised without an Annual Practising Certificate

A pharmacist who separated from her husband became “obsessed” with his new partner and repeatedly accessed her medical records without authority, a report from the New Zealand Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal says

Six sellers of a coffee powder marketed as a weight loss product have been told to close up shop or face prosecution after the brew was found to contain potentially dangerous levels of phenethylamine

The Department of Corrections and Clendon Pharmacy have been found to have breached a prisoner’s rights following an ongoing medication management failure that led to him being hospitalised four times

A Nelson pharmacy company has been fined nearly $400,000 for facilitating a price-fixing agreement between competing pharmacies to charge an additional $1 for prescription fees. 

New laws targeting health practitioners who harass AHPRA complainants are likely after the failed attempt by a GP to murder a pharmacist who had reported him to the watchdog

A Nelson pharmacy company has been fined nearly $400,000 for facilitating a price-fixing agreement between competing pharmacies to charge an additional $1 for prescription fees

The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a pharmacy manager who made a dispensing error that resulted in the hospitalisation of a patient then altered the certified repeat copy to frame a colleague for it