Education
0A review of Oriel placements has found that large numbers of pharmacy trainees are at risk of being paid below minimum wage from April – and that their employers may break the law.
0Scottish Labour’s deputy leader has slammed the government and NHS Education for Scotland for failing to plan for increased student numbers.
0The pharmacy regulator has considered using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ‘clone’ questions in part of the registration exam – and contemplated scrapping the calculations paper entirely.
0All of the places on a new pharmacy technician apprenticeship programme have already been filled on the day it launched, organisers have revealed.
0A 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.
0NHS England (NHSE) has decided that mandatory rotations for pharmacy trainees “will be delayed” until the 2027/28 cohort.
0The proportion of students who passed this autumn’s registration exam has fallen almost 10 percentage points compared to last year, pharmacy regulators have revealed.
0The mother of a pharmacy student who died by suicide after her university wrongly told her that she had failed her second year is campaigning for universities to have a statutory duty of care to prevent more student deaths.
0Some pharmacies are “forcing employees to be designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs)” while DPPs at “one large multiple” are not “routinely prescribing themselves”, Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) members have warned.
0The newly announced community pharmacy technician apprenticeship scheme is “oversubscribed”, NHS England (NHSE) has revealed.
0In early 2025, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) will ask members and fellows whether they wish it to be renamed the Royal College of Pharmacy. Two-thirds must agree. My vote, presently, is for college status but I might change my mind.
0Boots pharmacists can expect a 4% uplift in pay, while pharmacist store managers and long-time pharmacist workers will see new minimum pay rates, the PDA has announced.
0NHS England (NHSE) has revealed plans to add extra patient safety training to pharmacy continued professional development (CPD) requirements.
0Aston University has revealed its new £3.3m pharmacy training laboratory.
0Dutch researchers have found that ChatGPT produces “higher accuracy and reproducibility” than pharmacists when answering clinical pharmacy questions.
0The locum booking platform has announced a new scheme offering five final-year MPharm students £1,000 “to support their education” and the opportunity to become “brand ambassadors”.
0Northern Ireland’s pharmacy regulator has been “unable” to hire a new chief executive, it has revealed.
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0The pharmacy regulator has said that “there is an excess of places” for trainees – as long as placement providers can “actually make good and deliver on the new requirements” for DPPs.
0NHSE chief pharmacist David Webb has announced a big boost to funded training places for pharmacy technicians in community pharmacies at the APTUK annual conference.