Fitness to practise

Online pharmacy activity linked to 40 open fitness-to-practise cases, says GPhC

Presenting at The Pharmacy Show on 13 October 2023, Roz Gittins revealed that 68% of online pharmacies were found to meet all regulatory standards at inspection, 17 percentage points lower than for registered pharmacies overall.…

Regulator misses fitness-to-practise timeliness standard for sixth year in a row

The Professional Standards Authority said the General Pharmaceutical Council “is still taking too long to progress fitness-to-practise investigations”.…

Is the General Pharmaceutical Council making progress to improve its fitness-to-practise processes?

A closer look at measures being put in place to alleviate the rapid growth of fitness-to-practise concerns, an issue the pharmacy regulator has dubbed an “unprecedented challenge”.…

Roz Gittins: ‘The longer fitness-to-practise processes take, the longer registrants are left in purgatory’

As the new chief pharmacy officer for the General Pharmaceutical Council, Roz Gittins tells The Pharmaceutical Journal that she is bringing a fresh pair of eyes to the regulator’s fitness-to-practise process.…

Record number of fitness-to-practise cases creates ‘increased risk’ of missing patient safety threats, regulator warns

There were a record 1,373 fitness-to-practise concerns raised with the General Pharmaceutical Council between July and September 2023, with the regulator warning this may lead to it failing to act quickly on information relating to patient safety threats.…

Number of fitness-to-practise cases open for more than a year increases to 430 cases, regulator tells MP

The number of cases open for more than three years rose to 77 cases in 2022/2023, up from 49 cases in 2021/2022.…

Asian and black pharmacists overrepresented in fitness-to-practise concerns, GPhC finds

The General Pharmaceutical Council has analysed data on fitness-to-practise concerns and found that all ethnicities other than white pharmacists were overrepresented.…

PSA writes to health secretary to ‘raise concerns’ over GPhC’s fitness-to-practise timeliness

Duncan Rudkin, chief executive of the GPhC, said it was “an absolute priority” for it to resolve fitness-to-practise cases “in a timely way”.…

GPhC facing biggest ever backlog of open fitness-to-practise cases at initial assessment stage

Council papers said there were more than 700 open initial assessment fitness-to-practise cases.…

Pharmacist given warning as committee in second fitness-to-practise case rules remarks were antisemitic

The General Pharmaceutical Council’s fitness-to-practise committee issued Nazim Hussain Ali with a warning for a second time over remarks he made at an Al Quds Day rally, after its initial decision was quashed by the High Court.…