Education
In 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.
Boots 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.
NHS England (NHSE) has revealed plans to add extra patient safety training to pharmacy continued professional development (CPD) requirements.
Aston University has revealed its new £3.3m pharmacy training laboratory.
Dutch researchers have found that ChatGPT produces “higher accuracy and reproducibility” than pharmacists when answering clinical pharmacy questions.
The 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”.
Northern Ireland’s pharmacy regulator has been “unable” to hire a new chief executive, it has revealed.
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The 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.
NHSE chief pharmacist David Webb has announced a big boost to funded training places for pharmacy technicians in community pharmacies at the APTUK annual conference.
"I'm really, really, scared. I don't want to give the wrong information and I don't want to give the wrong product. And I don't know if I'm ever going to know enough to do it."
The union has raised concerns about a report’s “suggestion” to include designated prescribing practitioner (DPP) responsibilities in pharmacists’ job descriptions.
The pharmacy regulator is “seeking experienced providers” to fulfill a four-year-long, multi-million-pound registration examination contract.
Ten pharmacists have been removed from the register by the PSNI over "non-compliance" with CPD rules, it has announced.
The Pharmacy Schools Council have called for academic pharmacy to be “more attractive” so it can deal with an increase of 1500 pharmacy students by 2031.
The RPS and the NPA have joined forces to call for action over the designated prescribing practitioners (DPP) shortage, identifying pressure points including competition for DPPs between students, continuity with mentors, and consistency across placements.
The University of Nottingham’s Professor Barrie Kellam has been elected as chair of the Pharmacy Schools Council (PhSC), it has announced.
Applications are “now open” for pharmacy technicians hoping to scoop up the first ten out of 80 new funded training placements, the negotiator has announced.
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has revised its plans for the registration of internationally trained pharmacists to move to a single one-year process, it has revealed.
Pharmacy companies are asking individual IP trainees to source their own designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs) at great expense, C+D has learned.