DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 30 June 2017 A County Down GP was sentenced today at Downpatrick Crown Court to two years imprisonment suspended for two years in relation to 29 counts of fraud by abuse of position and false representation, unlawful possession of controlled drugs and failure to properly keep a Controlled Drugs Register. Dr Thomas […]

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SOCIAL SERVICES AND PUBLIC SAFETY 27 April, 2015 A pharmacist was sentenced today to 12 months imprisonment for the illegal supply of prescription medicines, including a range of controlled drugs, from his Armagh pharmacy. Maurice Currie, 46, of Portmore Road, Lisburn, appeared at Newry Crown Court having previously pleaded guilty to illegally […]

An NI couple could be banned from operating care homes after the regulator found they had been responsible for “significant financial abuse of six vulnerable adults”. The investigation focused on Bawn Cottage Residential Care Home at Hamiltonsbawn and its sister home, Hebron House, in Markethill. The regulator has deemed the owners, Norman and Mildred Wylie, […]