Ban for nurse who used fake scripts to get 5,000 pillls

A nurse who faked prescriptions to obtain nearly 5,000 pills for her own use has been banned from practicing. Aileen Barrie, 56, conned chemists into handing over 4,944 Co-codamol tablets over a three-year period while working at the Kilsyth Medical Practice in Glasgow. Barrie created fake prescriptions using patients’ medical records to obtain the medication for her own use, deleting the chits afterwards, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. Following an investigation by the NHS Counter Fraud Services the nurse…