William Joseph Alexander Campbell
Introduction
William Joseph Alexander Campbell is a pharmacist whose registration was cancelled by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal after it found that between October 2019 and July 2025 he was made subject to criminal findings for contravening an apprehended domestic violence order, stalking or intimidating another person, and using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend; failed to notify the national board of those charges and findings as required; made a false representation to the board about his criminal history when renewing his registration; contravened conditions on his registration; gave false and misleading information to the Pharmacy Council; and deliberately falsified pathology records. The NSW Health Care Complaints Commission prosecuted the complaint. In its decision of 30 January 2026 the Tribunal found the complaint proven, found Campbell guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct and that he has an impairment, cancelled his registration for three years and prohibited him from providing health services for the same period.
Background Information
Campbell worked as a pharmacist in New South Wales. Pharmacy registration carries obligations most professions do not: the practitioner must disclose criminal charges to the national board within seven days, must answer honestly for his criminal history at every annual renewal, and dispenses controlled medicines whose supply is checked against records the practitioner himself maintains. The Tribunal’s findings in this case ran across all three duties at once — concealment of a domestic-violence-related criminal file from the board, a false renewal declaration, and falsified pathology records — and added an impairment finding, the ground on which regulators treat a practitioner’s continuing capacity to practise as itself in question. The complaint was prosecuted by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission before the Tribunal.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Tribunal findings. The findings below are the formal adjudications of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal in a case prosecuted by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission. They were found proven in the Tribunal’s decision of 30 January 2026. The sources describe criminal findings made against Campbell but do not report sentences.
It was alleged that between October 2019 and July 2025, Mr Campbell was made subject to criminal findings in respect of contravening an apprehended domestic violence order, stalking or intimidating another person, and using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend; failed to notify the National Board within seven days of being charged with these offences and of the criminal findings; made a false representation to the National Board concerning changes to his criminal history when renewing his registration; contravened conditions on his registration; intentionally provided false and misleading information to the Pharmacy Council; and deliberately falsified pathology records. It was also alleged he lacked capacity to practise because of an impairment. The Tribunal found the complaint proven, found Campbell guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct and that he has an impairment, cancelled his registration for three years and prohibited him from providing health services for the same period.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The Health Care Complaints Commission published its media release announcing the cancellation on 5 February 2026, six days after the decision. The case is one of the fullest in the Commission’s early-2026 run: nearly six years of course conduct spanning the criminal courts, the national board, the Pharmacy Council and the patient record, with each system’s trust assumption defeated in turn — the board’s assumption that charges will be disclosed, the renewal’s assumption that the declared history is complete, the Council’s assumption that the practitioner’s answers are true, and the record’s assumption that pathology entries reflect what happened. The three-year cancellation plus prohibition order sits in the stronger tier of the Tribunal’s protective outcomes. The release names no appeal and no public statement from Campbell.
Current Status
Campbell’s pharmacy registration is cancelled for three years from the 30 January 2026 decision, and he is prohibited from providing health services for the same period — to January 2029 at the earliest before review. He cannot practise pharmacy in Australia while unregistered. The Tribunal’s decision is published through NSW Caselaw. The sources report no public statement from Campbell and no appeal against the findings or orders; the underlying criminal findings stand as the courts recorded them. The Commission’s release does not name the protected person in the domestic-violence-related findings, and no patient harm was reported in the published material.
Impact on Their Career/Life
A pharmacy career ended across a six-year span in which every disclosure duty attached to the register was found to have been breached: the criminal file concealed at charge and again at conviction, the renewal declaration false, the conditions regime contravened, the Council misled, and the pathology record — the pharmacist’s own documentary product — deliberately falsified. The impairment finding means any attempt to return in 2029 runs through two gates at once, fitness to practise and capacity to practise, each requiring the Tribunal’s satisfaction after findings of this breadth. His case joins the Commission’s early-2026 run of published cancellations combining criminal findings with regulatory dishonesty.
Sources
- NSW Health Care Complaints Commission, “Mr William Joseph Alexander Campbell – Pharmacist – Cancellation and prohibition order for unsatisfactory professional conduct, professional misconduct and impairment,” 5 February 2026 — source