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The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have announced a pass rate of 61% for the first common registration assessment held in November – an eight percentage point drop on the 2019 autumn exam.
This is the third registration exam the GPhC has held online and the first time all four UK countries have sat the assessment at the same time.
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Due to shortages in coal tar scalp ointment, the DHSC has asked the manufacturer of an equivalent product - Sebco - to provide increased stock levels to support patients during this time.
Pharmacies in Scotland have been asked to ensure they have the “appropriate stock” of naloxone – a medicine used to reverse the effects of an opiate overdose – following an “increase in sudden collapse” due to overdoses.
As the dust settles on the announcement that NHS England (NHSE) is set for the scrapheap, questions on what a 50% headcount cut means for local commissioners remain…
All of the places on a new pharmacy technician apprenticeship programme have already been filled on the day it launched, organisers have revealed.
A postgraduate pharmacy student has been removed from the register after she “falsified” documents during her studies, “invented reasons for absences” and made “widespread clinical failures” during her time of employment.
