Jail for chemists who stole £1m of drugs from the NHS to sell to the EU

Two greedy pharmacists who made over £1m by faking prescriptions for NHS cancer medications and selling the drugs to the EU have each been jailed for six years. Jignesh Patel, 46, and Rahil Patel, 42, (no rel) faked 1,636 chits using the identities of hundreds of real patients to claim £1.3m from the NHS between 2014 and 2017. Barnet Clinical Commissioning Group discovered that prescriptions from pharmacies did not match patient records, with most coming from the Wise Pharmacy on…