Lloydspharmacy ‘reviews’ training offer days before Oriel student deadline

Lloydspharmacy is “still reviewing” its placement offers for trainee pharmacists just days before the preferencing deadline given to students, it has emerged.

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Lloydspharmacy is “still reviewing” its training offer for 2023, it said

Pharmacy students claimed on Tuesday (October 25) they had been told by the online recruitment portal Oriel that Lloydspharmacy was removing the remainder of its advertised placements as it “cannot commit to which training places will be taking trainees in 2023”.

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