‘Pharmacists sold cancer drugs to EU in £1.3m scam’

Two pharmacists made over £1m in ‘pure profit’ after faking NHS-funded cancer medicine prescriptions to sell the expensive drugs to the EU, a court heard. Jignesh Patel, 46, and Rahil Patel, 42, (no rel) allegedly 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 noticed prescriptions from pharmacies did not match patient records, with most coming from the Wise Pharmacy on Fore Street in…