THE registration of a Tasmanian pharmacist was suspended for six weeks earlier this year, after he admitted to professional misconduct in relation to inappropriate supply of scheduled medications and inadequate record keeping.
The Pharmacy Board of Australia referred Michael Meaney to the Health Practitioner's Tribunal of Tasmania for allegedly inappropriately supplying S8, S4 and S4D medications on numerous occasions, inadequate record keeping, inappropriately saving previously dispensed and returned medications, and resupplying as unused medications those that were previously dispensed and returned to the pharmacy.
Meaney was working as the sole pharmacist at a rural Tasmanian pharmacy at the time the alleged incidents occurred in 2013.
The offences included supplying 'emergency' medication outside of the Poisons Regulations, and the supply of medication to several interstate customers without a valid prescription.
The tribunal accepted the admitted conduct was well intended, but "amounted to a misguided approach to the practice of pharmacy".
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