WESTERN Australia's State Administrative Tribunal has suspended the registration of a pharmacist for two months and ordered him to undertake education in ethics and dispensing, after he was found to have engaged in professional misconduct.
According to the Pharmacy Board of Australia, evidence was presented at a hearing in relation to pharmacist Michael Man Ho Tse, alleging that between Sep and Oct 2016 he dispensed fentanyl patches to a patient without a valid prescription or verbal authority from a medical practitioner.
In addition Tse did not make any record of dispensing fentanyl to the patient, and altered the dates of several scripts to reconcile the supply of patches for which he did not have a valid prescription.
The pharmacist admitted engaging in professional misconduct, including his failure to make contact with a medical practitioner when he was aware the prescribing doctor was away.
"With no prior history of misconduct, Mr Tse was remorseful and cooperated early with the Pharmacy Board of Australia and the WA Department of Health," the board noted, with the pharmacist also required to be mentored monthly over a six month period.
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