Pharmacist suspended for withholding customer's inhaler

[Northerner]

Pharmacist Snehlata Jayantilal Vora, registration number 2017737, has been suspended from the professional register for six months after refusing to supply a patient with prescription medication until she paid ?2.99 for damaged goods.

Ms Vora deliberately withheld the inhaler after the patient accidentally knocked over a basket of powder compacts in the pharmacy, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) found at a fitness-to-practise hearing on January 25.

Ms Vora consistently denied blackmailing or keeping medication from the patient, but the GPhC dismissed her testimonial as "highly improbable" and ruled to suspend her with immediate effect.

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[LeeLee]

Thank goodness action was taken over this extremely inappropriate act. Whilst most asthmatics live perfectly normal lives and manage the condition, it can kill - remember Charlotte Coleman from Four Weddings and a Funeral? It's all about control, which is impossible without the right inhalers at the right time.