Regulatory bodies

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is set to fill the “legal loophole” that currently leaves pharmacist-owned-businesses that are run from unregistered premises completely unregulated, the pharmacy regulator has said.

NHS England (NHSE) has revealed plans to add extra patient safety training to pharmacy continued professional development (CPD) requirements.  

A “brazen” pharmacy technician has been suspended after telling his workplace that he was late to work because he had “used a line of cocaine”. 

The time taken by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) to resolve FtP cases “deteriorated” in 2023/24, the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) has found in its performance review of the regulator.

Some seven pharmacists have been removed from the Northern Irish pharmacy register at once, it has revealed. 

Northern Ireland’s pharmacy regulator has been “unable” to hire a new chief executive, it has revealed.

“Not following” the pharmacy regulator’s proposed new guidance on weight loss drugs and online pharmacy prescribing could result in fitness-to-practise (FtP) investigations into “all the pharmacy professionals involved”, it has warned.  

The GPhC has rated its fitness-to-practice performance as “amber” as it hits “reset” on its open cases objective for the year.

The Court of Appeal has reinstated mammoth fines imposed against manufacturers that had been set aside on procedural grounds earlier this year.

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has formed a “new working group” to support its “anti-racism agenda” and hold itself “to the same high standards [it expects] of others”, it has announced.