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I'd just like to add to the statt comm debate that I know of a case, and the outcome of which makes me wonder if "it's not what you know, but who".

A guy I know has been before it twice. He owned two pharmacies, and was known in the area for buying out of date drugs from other pharmacies, and re-packaging them. He had his "special" room upstairs, and the staff that are left there (he's since sold up) tell me horrendous things went on.

The last time he went before the committee, it was again for this kind of thing - re-using returned drugs, using out of date stock, removing used by dates and batch numbers - things of that nature. The 2nd time he got another reprimand, and the only comments reported in the PJ that stick in my mind was that he had a good set of references.

One of my pharmacist friends tells me somebody has just been struck off for doing just about the same thing, and this was their first visit to the Statt Comm, not their second.

It makes you wonder.