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Some 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.

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.

The pharmacy regulators have revealed that a quarter of candidates did not pass this summers’ registration exam. 

The registration assessment for trainee pharmacists in London started three hours later than planned thanks to a power cut in a “large area” of the capital, the regulator has said.

The pharmacy regulator will allow designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs) to virtually supervise trainee prescribing pharmacists “where appropriate” as it tries to ensure there are “enough” supervisors ahead of 2025/26, it has revealed.

The membership body has warned that a lack of designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs) could leave a “significant number of graduates” struggling to find employment.  

An NHS England (NHSE) pharmacy dean has said that new funding for PCNs available through the ARRS scheme will boost DPP numbers in preparation for 2025/26.

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