{"id":39358,"date":"2025-09-23T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/39358\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:34:08","slug":"pharmacist-caused-major-risk-to-public-safety-when-prescription-medicines-were-issued-after-she-left-work-early-inquiry-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/39358\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacist caused \u2018major risk to public safety\u2019 when prescription medicines were issued after she left work early, inquiry hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a50121c9-6fee-47ba-ac10-c9b90b92c9a5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stock image Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A pharmacist caused a \u201cmajor risk to public safety\u201d when she left work nearly an hour early with no other pharmacist on duty and prescription medicines were issued to members of the public in her absence, a fitness to practice inquiry has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dr Martina Geraghty, who works as a pharmacist and is co-owner of the Molloy\u2019s Pharmacy and Health Food Store chain of pharmacies in the west of Ireland, appeared before the hearing at the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) before a professional conduct committee panel today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock image Photo: PA A pharmacist caused a \u201cmajor risk to public safety\u201d when she left work nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-39358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}