Revalidation: Only reflective account needed until end of February 2022

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who are due to submit their revalidation records from December 2021 only need to file a reflective account until February 2022, the GPhC has said.

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“Full revalidation requirements” could be reintroduced when the emergency powers for the pandemic are lifted

In an update on its website published yesterday (October 4), the regulator wrote that it has decided to further extend the changes to its revalidation requirements it made in March 2020 “in recognition of the continuing pressures linked to the COVID-19 pandemic that pharmacy professionals are likely to face this winter”.

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