Pharmacist pings dodgy doctor

A UK doctor was caught prescribing inappropriately by a hospital pharmacist at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford in Mar last year, according to a finding by the UK Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.

The doctor was working as a locum when he wrote fake prescriptions for oestradiol and progesterone for a family friend, a woman aged 55-60, in the name of a patient chosen at random from the hospital database.

The pharmacist noticed that the patient he’d prescribed oestradiol for, had attended the hospital’s midwifery clinic the month before.

The same pharmacist also queried another script, as the second patient had not attended the hospital ED for five months.

The practitioner was dismissed immediately by the hospital and the Tribunal deregistered him saying he was “unsafe” to practice.

For more, see mpts-uk.org.