GPhC to introduce ‘risk-based’ inspection programme later this year

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) will introduce a more “risk-based and proportionate routine inspection programme” later in the year, it has said on its website.

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The GPhC launched its inspections website in September 2019

The characteristics of the programme are currently under review and the GPhC is unable to share more “specific information on the timelines for [its] introduction”, a spokesperson told C+D last week (May 21).

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