GPhC

The regulator has issued a year’s suspension in an “unusual case” that saw a pharmacist send prescription only medicines (POMs) “hidden in a barrel with clothes and shoes” to Sierra Leone.

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

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.

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.

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has found that the fitness to practice (FtP) of a pharmacist who was in charge when patient confidentiality was breached by the “fly-tipping” of medical waste in an “unsecure location” is “no longer impaired”.

A pharmacy technician has been removed from the register after he “took advantage” of a teenager who he messaged on Snapchat and gave cannabis “to facilitate the offence of rape”, the regulator has revealed.

The pharmacy regulator has suggested that its inspection of some bricks-and-mortar pharmacies be delayed, amid attempts to focus efforts on “pharmacy types known to present greater risk”.

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.

The High Court of Justice has called out the “gross incompetence and unfairness” of the GPhC’s handling of a pharmacist’s alleged role in “fraudulent” medication sales overseas, ordering the regulator to “undertake the whole process again”.

The pharmacy regulator has ruled that the luxury pharmacy, which held the Royal Warrant as pharmacist to Queen Elizabeth II, has not met its inspection standard on “governance”.