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An online doctor’s service has been fined after pleading guilty to providing services without being registered with the Care Quality Commission.
Stockport-based Pharmacorp Ltd (also known as Medicine Direct), was carrying out a regulated activity while unregistered with the CQC between 1 August 2018 and 1 July 2019.
The provider was fined £3,500 at Tameside Magistrates’ Court today. (Friday, 18 February).
The company was also ordered to pay £10,000 costs and a £170 victim surcharge as a result of the prosecution brought by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Medication, including high strength cocodamol, pregabalin and gabapentin was being prescribed to patients by individual GMC registered doctors who were based in Romania, following the completion of an online questionnaire.
The CQC said in a statement: "The medication was then sent to the patients by post from Pharmacorp’s premises in Stockport. Their website was misleading and suggested that they were using UK based doctors.
"This service exposed patients to a significant risk of harm, due to them completing prescription requests while unregulated and by using an online questionnaire which carried the real risk of misdiagnosis.
"Without access to the patients’ GP notes, the doctor would have been unable to confirm that the information provided in the questionnaire by the patients was accurate."
CQC requires digital providers, who use doctor consultation services to be registered as a provider for the regulated activity of the treatment of disease, disorder or injury. It is an offence under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 to carry out a regulated activity – in this case, providing doctor consultation services - without being registered with CQC.
Emma Boger,
Major companies are pulling their business out of Russia as global economic pressure piles on the country following the invasion of Ukraine.
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