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.
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