Law and ethics

Question 1

What is standard 1?

Answer 1

Pharmacy professionals must provide person-centred care

Question 2

What is standard 2?

Answer 2

Pharmacy professionals must work in partnership with others

Question 3

What is standard 3?

Answer 3

Pharmacy professionals must communicate effectively

Question 4

What is standard 4?

Answer 4

Pharmacy professionals must maintain, develop and use their professional knowledge and skills

Question 5

What is standard 5?

Answer 5

Pharmacy professionals must use their professional judgement

Question 6

What is standard 6?

Answer 6

Pharmacy professionals must behave in a professional manner

Question 7

What is standard 7?

Answer 7

Pharmacy professionals must respect and maintain a persons confidentiality and privacy

Question 8

What is standard 8?

Answer 8

Pharmacy professionals must speak up when they have concerns or when things go wrong

Question 9

What is standard 9?

Answer 9

Pharmacy professionals must demonstrate leadership

Question 10

What is considered under fitness to practise (FTP)?

Answer 10

Skills
Knowledge
Character
Health

Question 11

How is FTP reviewed?

Answer 11

By an annual declaration (or within 7 days of an incident)
Need to complete revalidation records

Question 12

What legislation is FTP done under?

Answer 12

Pharmacy Order 2010

Question 13

Examples of wrongdoing…

Answer 13

Serious unprofessional or inappropriate behaviour
Dishonesty or fraud
Working under the influence

Question 14

What are the 4 action steps taken after a wrongdoing?

Answer 14

1. Receival of a concern
   Outcomes:
   a) Close the case
   b) Pass it onto another regulator or agency
   c) Begin an investigation
2. Start to investigate said concern
   Steps:
   a) Visiting the site, speaking to the pharmacy
   professional involved and identifying any
   witnesses
   b) Aim to complete investigations within three to
   nine months
   c) Interim orders allow for a pharmacy
   professional’s registration to be suspended
3. Investigating committee
   Steps:
   a) Private meeting that considers written evidence
   b) Usually includes 4 people: a chair or deputy chair,
   two pharmacy professional members, a lay
   member
   Outcomes:
   a) take no action
   b) give advice to the pharmacy professional
   c) issue a warning
   d) agree ‘undertakings’
   e) practise is impaired
   f) refer to an FtPC
4. Fitness to Practice committee
   Steps:
   a) Committee of three people: a chair, a registrant
   member, a lay member
   b) In most cases, a committee will hold a hearing in
   public.
   c) ‘Balance of probabilities’.
   d) Decision is called a determination
   Outcomes:
   a) take no action
   b) advice
   c) agree ‘undertakings’
   d) issue a warning
   e) impose conditions on practice
   f) suspend from practising
   g) remove from the register

Question 15

What needs to be done to be able to reapply to go back on the register?

Answer 15

Wait 5 years
Evidence based/is needed