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Andrew Roberts

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Practitioner name: Andrew Roberts
Name as recorded: Andrew Roberts
Profession: Pharmacist
Decision date: 2022-12-13
Offence category: Theft; trespass; fraud
Offence: From mid-2018, about a month after starting at an Adelaide pharmacy, he stole drugs of dependency by entering almost 70 false prescriptions on about 39 occasions over 18 months. After resigning in September 2019 he went back into the pharmacy three times (using a copied key) and did it again. Pleaded guilty and convicted in the SA Magistrates Court of trespass with intent to commit theft, theft, and dishonestly manipulating a machine for benefit. Did not notify the Board of the charges.
Outcome: Reprimanded, disqualified from registration and banned from providing any health service for five years from 13 December 2022; Board's costs. SACAT set a fixed five-year disqualification even though he did not take part in the proceedings and gave no evidence of rehabilitation.
Outcome type: Disqualified (not permanent)
Outcome length: 5 years
Category: Not recorded
Tribunal: South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Case name: Pharmacist disqualified for five years
Citation: [2022] SACAT 111
Tribunal decision date: 2022-12-13
State: SA
Tribunal city: Not recorded
National board: Pharmacy Board of Australia
Registration status: Not recorded
Official outcome (tribunal/board): Not recorded
Source confidence: Not recorded
Notes: Permanently barred: No

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