The Health Ombudsman issued an interim prohibition order imposing restrictions on the provision of health services provided by Ashley Mead-Ryan, effective 20 December 2024.

Scope of Practice

The restrictions imposed include the requirements the practitioner:

• must not possess, supply, administer, handle, dispense, access or check, including as emergency treatment supplies or doctor’s bag stock, any monitored medicine listed in Schedule 2, Part 4 of the Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Regulation 2021 as amended from time to time.
• must only practise in employment and at practice locations approved by the Health Ombudsman and published on the Office of the Health Ombudsman website.

Should the practitioner be approved by the Health Ombudsman to practise in a role within a pharmacy, the practitioner:

• must be supervised by a registered pharmacist who must be in attendance at all times the practitioner is on site at the approved practice location, including direct observation of the practitioner if the practitioner is accessing an area where monitored medicines are stored or kept
• must not be provided with a physical key or combination to a Schedule 8 safe
• must not be authorised to access (or be given access to) any online controlled drug purchasing portal.
  
  For the purpose of this restriction a Schedule 8 medicine means any substance listed in Schedule 8 of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons (theSUSMP) as amended from time to time and/or pharmaceutical items containing any active ingredient listed within Schedule 8 of the SUSMP.

Approved employment and practice locations

The practitioner does not currently have Health Ombudsman approval to practise in any employment or practice location.

Period of action or order

In accordance with section 73(2) of the Health Ombudsman Act 2013 (the Act), the order continues to have effect until the earliest of the following happens –

• the order ends under section 90H of the Act;
• QCAT sets aside the decision to issue the order on application by the practitioner for a review of the decision;
• the Health Ombudsman revokes the order under section 76 of the Act.