The “number one” pharmacy training provider has been acquired by BPP Education Group, the group has announced. 

The pharmacy regulator has revealed that it will consider whether new standards for trainee and registered pharmacy technicians are needed in the sector’s “changing landscape”.

Students on the new scheme backed by £1.5 million in funding will be assigned to “experiential placement sites across London”, including care homes and mental health trusts, one London university announced. 

Boots has revealed that it is considering launching a “development programme” for pharmacy technicians to “free up pharmacist capacity”.

A “comprehensive learning programme” to help Welsh pharmacists deliver the pharmacy independent prescribing service (PIPS) “with confidence” has been announced. 

The multiple has offered “less than 30” places for English pharmacy trainees in the 2025/26 cohort and may “need to withdraw some of those places”, C+D has learned.  

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has appointed Dr Mat Smith as its new board of assessors’ chair. 

Pharmacists trained in “similar” countries like Australia, New Zealand and Ireland could register after 3-4 months, according to new proposals from the GPhC.

Pharmacy trainees working for Boots will get a year-on-year pay increase of up to 29% in April, the multiple and the pharmacy union have agreed. 

A pharmacist has used his business to raise more than £8,000 over the past year and to set up a new charitable organisation.

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has won a multimillion-pound contract to “generate evidence” on the new Pharmacy First service, it has announced.  

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has criticised the lack of progress on the ‘gap’ between the proportion of black and white pharmacy trainees who pass the summer registration assessment.