E52,000 PPA overpayment leads to striking-off order

摘要

The name of a pharmacist who made erroneous claims to the Prescription Pricing Authority about the supply of an expensive growth hormone product is to be removed from the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists on the order of the Statutory Committee.The false claims totalled about ?52,000.The committee took no action against a company that was a party to the inquiry.At its meeting on 26 January,the committee considered a complaint from the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society concerning Allan Stuart Black (registration number 70782),of Cheadle,Cheshire,and Formans (Chemists) Ltd,of which Mr Black was superintendent pharmacist and a director.The company owned a pharmacy in Prestwich,Manchester.The Council alleged that the submission of the erroneous claims might have demonstrated misconduct such as to render Mr Black unfit to have his name on the register and the company liable to disqualification.