WEST Australian pharmacist Lex Walliss has been reprimanded and disqualified from re-applying for registration for six months after he admitted to professional misconduct.
According to an update from the Pharmacy Board of Australia on Fri, the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia heard Walliss admit that he had attended work as a pharmacist on 29 Sep 2016 while under the influence of numerous substances and fatigue and made four dispensing errors in Jan and May 2016.
In addition he confessed to practising as a pharmacist on 20 and 23 October 2016 when he knew that doing so would be in breach of conditions on his registration prohibiting him from practising.
Had Walliss been registered at the time of the hearing, the Tribunal said it would have cancelled his registration.
The Tribunal also determined that Walliss has an impairment, and is required to pay the Pharmacy Board of Australia the costs of its application to bring him to justice, namely $2,500.
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