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.
0The pharmacy union has revealed that it has agreed an increase of up to 14% in the pay rate for trainee pharmacists with Boots.
0The Northern Irish (NI) pharmacy regulator has proposed removing the “blanket” recognition currently on offer to pharmacists from “a number of countries” wishing to register with it, alongside plans to update its online pharmacy standards.
0All of the places on a new pharmacy technician apprenticeship programme have already been filled on the day it launched, organisers have revealed.
0An assistant professor has been warned for “entirely inappropriate” conduct, including instant messaging a student exam marks early and asking them to watch a movie with him.
0The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has flagged the potential for AI to be used in Pharmacy First and has stressed that healthcare regulation “must not stifle” AI innovation.
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.