Education providers

‘Deflated’: Student stress after shortfall in trainee places

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Scottish Labour’s deputy leader has slammed the government and NHS Education for Scotland for failing to plan for increased student numbers.

New pharmacy tech apprentice scheme ‘fully booked’ in one day

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All of the places on a new pharmacy technician apprenticeship programme have already been filled on the day it launched, organisers have revealed.

Pharmacy student struck off for ‘fabricating’ assessments

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A 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.

Mandatory multi-sector training shelved over ‘current pressures’

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NHS England (NHSE) has decided that mandatory rotations for pharmacy trainees “will be delayed” until the 2027/28 cohort.

BREAKING: November registration exam pass rate plummets to 58%

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The proportion of students who passed this autumn’s registration exam has fallen almost 10 percentage points compared to last year, pharmacy regulators have revealed.

GPhC greenlights controversial education and inspection reforms

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The pharmacy regulator has revealed that it will go forward with some changes to pharmacy education quality checks, despite “long-standing concerns” raised during its consultation.

‘Our daughter would still be alive’: Campaign launched over MPharm suicide after wrong exam results

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The 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.

Funded community pharmacy technician apprenticeship ‘oversubscribed’

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The newly announced community pharmacy technician apprenticeship scheme is “oversubscribed”, NHS England (NHSE) has revealed.

Aston University upgrades with new £3.3m pharmacy labs

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Aston University has revealed its new £3.3m pharmacy training laboratory.

DPP shortage: ‘Excess’ pharmacy trainee places ‘on the face of it’, says GPhC chief

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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.