Almost 150 chemists in the UK have been reprimanded for providing sub-standard care over the past year, MailOnline can reveal.
Nine were subject to enforcement action for breaching strict regulatory guidelines.
One – Allcures Pharmacy in South Ockendon, Essex – performed inadequate safety checks before doling out 'high risk' drugs, leaving patients 'liable to abuse, misuse and overuse'.
Another, Burwash Pharmacy in Hove, Sussex, posed a 'serious risk to patient safety' because of its 'inadequate' risk management and safeguarding around prescribing medicines online, including for weight loss.
MailOnline has flagged all 143 of the offending chemists on an interactive map.