A Hamilton pharmacist sanctioned and fined $35k for five serious charges including incorrectly labelling medication can today be named.
Simon Cooper was found guilty for leaving methadone unlocked and available on a counter, abandoning the pharmacy unattended by a pharmacist on a number of occasions, mislabelling prescriptions and not signing for them, failing to observe incorrect instructions that had been included on a label and asking colleagues to lie for him.
He was granted interim name suppression at the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal hearing in March but today that ruling has lapsed.
As a result of the hearing Cooper was condemned from his practice with conditions added.
He was also ordered to pay $35,400 as contribution costs to the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of the Pharmacy Council, who laid the charge, and the tribunal.