Multiples will only offer 300 trainee placements for 2025/26

While new data has revealed an increase in the total number of foundation placements, the number of placements lead by large multiples has tanked.

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Large multiples will be the lead employer on only 277 of the 4102 placements available for the 2025/26 cohort of pharmacy trainees, new Oriel data reveals.

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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