| A helping hand for the pharmacy profession ... ch are developed and led by the scheme’s four co-ordinators. External speakers are brought in to cover specific topics, such as dealing with bereavement, loss and addiction, and to provide updates on pre-registration training. These weekends also act as a place for the volunteers to network, share best practice, air their concerns and discuss complex issues they may be struggling with. This is often aided by role ... Date: 10-05-2010 Categories: • Pharmacy Practice |
| Trainee pharmacist vacancies to rise Health Education England (HEE) will increase the number of available trainee pharmacist vacancies by 10% next year. The number of pharmacist pre-registration places are set to rise to 657. Currently, pharmacists make up 14% of the primary care workforce, and HEE has pledged to increase this from September 2015 onwards. An independent think tank has been s ... Date: 18-12-2014 Categories: • News • Pharmacy Practice • Practice and policy |
| High satisfaction with pharmacy pre-registration training ... tutor trainee relationship is critical which is why we published our guidance on tutoring in 2014 and we would urge both trainee and tutors to actively use it. "Meanwhile, our ongoing surveys around pre-registration training will allow us to increase our understanding of key trends, issues and themes in pre-registration training." Date: 22-01-2015 Categories: • News • Pharmacy Practice • Practice and policy |
| Community Pharmacy West Yorkshire join forces with Pharmacist Support ... artnership between CPWY, who represent more than 530 community pharmacies, and the charitable institution aims to increase awareness of the free and confidential services available to pharmacists and pre-registration trainees. Robbie Turner, CEO of CPWY, said: “Working with Pharmacist Support will not only contribute to the health and wellbeing of our pharmacy teams here in West Yorkshire, it will in turn deli ... Date: 22-10-2015 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| Pharmacy technician survey Pharmacy technicians have been invited to give feedback on their pre-registration training by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). The regulator has launched its first survey into the schooling of pharmacy professionals as part of a three-year project to scrutinise key tr ... Date: 23-10-2015 Categories: • Latest News • News • Pharmacy Practice |
| NEWS IN BRIEF: Welsh elections; Drug price hikes; Practice payment increase; GPhC Results; Well ... er (@PharmacyHumber) October 26, 2015 GPhC announce results of September 2015 registration assessment The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is pleased to announce the names of the 626 pre-registration trainee pharmacists who passed their registration assessment in September; a pass rate of 64%. Duncan Rudkin, chief executive of the GPhC, said: “Congratulations to those candidates who have succe ... Date: 27-10-2015 Categories: • News • News in Brief • Views |
| 'The hand of the Treasury' - Interview ... quite an exciting time for pharmacists really because of the various opportunities that are opening up to them to really use the learning they get at university when they do their course and in their pre-registration year. I think some pharmacists in the past have been a bit frustrated that actually they haven’t been able to really use their knowledge of medicines and the effects they have on the body. So I ... Date: 15-02-2016 Categories: • News • Practice and policy |
| Community pharmacist awarded BPSA honour ... organizations and companies to help fund things like annual and area conferences, talks and competitions, is extremely commendable.” The BPSA conference is an annual event where pharmacy students, pre-registration trainees and past BPSA members meet for debates and workshops. Date: 19-04-2016 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| Government confirms pharmacy funding cuts ... chard Thomas said that the imposition is sadly no surprise as the government was “hell-bent on this course of action”. He asked if the decision might be grounds for judicial review. Andrew Mole, a pre-registration pharmacist called the announcement “worrying news” and said “Two million signatories discarded just like that!” Read more reaction from pharmacy leaders here By Alice Harrold Date: 20-10-2016 Categories: • Latest News • More News • News |
| What will Jeremy Hunt's pharmacy legacy be? ... r pharmacists, dispensers, and accuracy checking technicians, while 77% are considering stopping or reducing the number of locum shifts they book. A quarter say their pharmacy will consider making pre-registration pharmacists pay for their training, and 7% say that they already do this. Service cuts The dire financial situation many contractors are finding themselves in means they are being pressured to ... Date: 10-02-2017 Categories: • News |
| NHS England: More funds for training should not be 'insulting' to pharmacists ... have the opportunities to being those skills up to date,’ he said. Dr Ridge highlighted the work that has been done in recent years to ensure that the training at undergraduate level as well as in pre-registration is ‘fit for purpose’, and that every pharmacist’s consultation and e-learning skills are up to date. ‘Ideally the undergraduate degree would be integrated but we've got some way to go around that. ... Date: 13-02-2017 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views |
| How to set up a travel clinic in your pharmacy ... For the past seven years, I have run an independent travel clinic in a pharmacy in North London. It has not only been financially fruitful, but also professionally rewarding. Once I finished my pre-registration training, I was a little disheartened at the thought of becoming an automaton putting labels on boxes for the rest of my life; I had a thirst for more. My previous work experience had mainly been ... Date: 16-08-2017 Categories: • Clinical • News • Travel health |
| How I became the youngest ever female fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society ... an advocate for women in pharmacy. Q What roles do you hold? A I’m currently working as a senior teaching fellow in Pharmacy Practice, for the UCL School of Pharmacy as alumni co-ordinator and pre-registration, and I’m a member of the RPS English Pharmacy board. I am the medicines management adviser for the British Islamic Medical Association. It’s an educational role; for instance, during Ramadan, patient ... Date: 12-12-2017 Categories: • News |
| Why more pharmacists are being affected by mental health conditions ... s a challenging role to bridge professional healthcare and run a business. Add to that a slew of funding cuts and other clawbacks, and you have a sector under serious pressure. Michael Champion, a pre-registration trainee, almost died by suicide in 2016 after he was diagnosed with low mood and generalised anxiety the previous year. He says there are options out there to support those experiencing issues wit ... Date: 14-12-2017 Categories: • Latest News • Mental health and addiction • News |
| Bruce Warner wants young pharmacists to 'shape future’ of health sector ... training and supporting them for over two decades’. The document is ‘an opportunity for pharmacy professionals to shape that future, though providing views on undergraduate curricula and training, pre-registration training, post-registration foundation training, advanced practitioner training, and consultant pharmacist roles, as well as career paths and progression’, said Mr Warner. Changing role ... Date: 31-01-2018 Categories: • Analysis • News |
| Outsourcing services to Capita led to significant cashflow and workload issues, PSNC says ... target for call answering times and resolving the majority of calls at first contact’. Additional bank loans PSNC’s evidence also stated that Capita services meant that some pre-registration students did not obtain their estimated £18,000 of monthly payments in 2017, with contractors incurring bank charges or additional bank loans to be able to pay them. In response, Capita said that ... Date: 20-06-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| What’s it like to be a sports pharmacist? ... o feel pharmacists can help sports doctors in their responsibility and duty of care to athletes as they do in healthcare settings.’ What made you want to start in the role? ‘I did my pre-registration year in hospital pharmacy, then moved into independent community pharmacy, where I built up experience, eventually purchasing my own pharmacy and limited company as managing director in Bradford On A ... Date: 28-06-2018 Categories: • News |
| Women in pharmacy: superintendent pharmacist Olutayo Arikawe ... overseas pharmacist assessment program (OSPAP), [a one-year postgraduate diploma that ensures those who qualified overseas receive the appropriate education and training for UK practice and entry to pre-registration training], then a pre-registration program. It was hard to understand the lecturers. I had to summon courage and ask Dr Hannah Batchelor [a senior lecturer in pharmaceutics, formulation and drug d ... Date: 02-07-2018 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views |
| Pre-reg exam not reflective of pharmacists’ daily practice, say students Candidates who sat June’s pre-registration exam felt the assessment did not reflect pharmacists’ day-to-day practice, a student body has told the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). Students told the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Ass ... Date: 24-07-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| June pre-reg pass rate increases to 79%, GPhC announces Just under one in eight candidates who sat June’s registration exam passed, the General Pharmaceutical Committee (GPhC) has announced. Of 2,942 pre-registration students who sat the exam last month, 79% (2,318) achieved a pass mark, the regulator said today (27 July). This pass rate is marginally higher than last year’s June registration assessment, which ... Date: 27-07-2018 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| How the cuts are affecting me: ‘If we didn't have the dispensary, we'd be quite a profitable business' ... t covers the equivalent of three and a half staff members plus a pre-reg pharmacist. That includes one dispenser, a dispensing assistant and the others are healthcare champions. ‘But the pre-registration student takes extra energy because we have to take time out and guide them as their tutor. If it wasn’t for that we’d be two staff members down, but because of the effort of a pre-registration pharma ... Date: 27-07-2018 Categories: • News |
| September registration exam pass rate climbs to 65% ... he September pharmacy registration assessment was higher than last year, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has revealed. Figures published today (25 October) by the GPhC showed that 65% of pre-registration trainee pharmacists passed the assessment, a seven percentage point increase on last year’s September exam pass rate. Of the 834 candidates who sat the exam on 27 September, 544 passed. There were ... Date: 26-10-2018 Categories: • News |
| Sandra Gidley: ‘The Government talks about what pharmacy can do but it doesn’t put its money where its mouth is’ ... to teach and become a university lecturer. I realised at that time that all the research in pharmacy was laboratory-based, which I’m temperamentally not suited to as it drives me insane! I did my pre-registration training in community pharmacy since I don’t like hospitals, mainly because my mother spent a lot of time there when I was young. I quite enjoyed being in the community and the contact with people so ... Date: 13-11-2018 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views |
| Women in pharmacy: superintendent pharmacy director Margaret MacRury ... But it was my Saturday job at university at a community pharmacy that made me see meeting the public and being able to advise them on medication was very satisfying. When it came to applying for a pre-registration position, I applied for community pharmacy because that’s where I really wanted to work. Q What is the key to your success? A I know that sounds a bit clichéd but I could never h ... Date: 03-12-2018 Categories: • Interviews • Latest News • News • Views |
| Women in pharmacy: RPS director of education Gail Fleming ... arding. I’ve worked in pharmacy training and education for 20 odd years so I take a lot of pride in watching people I’ve trained become successful. More recently, in 2017, I set up the national pre-registration pharmacist recruitment scheme, which was a big project that brought a lot of people together. Initially, many people thought that we couldn’t do it but in the end we all worked together to make it ha ... Date: 07-12-2018 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views |
| How can community pharmacy lead on supporting self-care? ... osted Pharmacy Xchangeathon to identify ways for community pharmacy to lead on minor condition management and support self-care. During the event, participants including pharmacists, technicians, pre-registration pharmacists, students and practice teachers offered solutions for pharmacies to help patients deal with pain management. Dr Andrew Moore, director of pain research at the Nuffield department of an ... Date: 21-12-2018 Categories: • Opinion • Views |
| Sector slams five-year pharmacy apprenticeship proposals ... espond. The proposals were heavily criticised by pharmacists on social media, with many pointing out that the current education model already requires five years of study, albeit in university and pre-registration placement settings. Please respond to this absurd consultation proposing Pharmacist Apprentices. I’m proud to be a pharmacist and part of that is pride in studying for an MPharm and gett ... Date: 12-04-2019 Categories: • Latest News • More News • News |
| Welsh Government to invest £3.6m in multi-sector pre-reg training ... As part of the UK-wide ‘Train, Work, Live’ campaign, also launched yesterday, the Welsh Government will promote the country as a ‘top choice’ for pharmacy students deciding where to undertake their pre-registration training. The Welsh campaign will highlight both the benefits of training in the country and the breadth of pharmacy roles available for a continued career there. A ‘clear signal’ ... Date: 18-04-2019 Categories: • News |
| 'There was a rather hard-fought election': What it’s like to be a pharmacist PCN chief ... ’s there that I felt I had something to contribute. That’s what I’ve been doing for several years now. I did quite a lot of work with the whole pharmacy workforce – pharmacy technicians, students, pre-registration pharmacists and foundation pharmacists, among others. Right across the board we’ve tried to bring in that skillset to general practice and I think largely speaking we’ve been successful. A big cri ... Date: 20-05-2019 Categories: • News |
| Sector reacts: Pharmacy apprenticeship proposal on hold ... ry advice, as we have with all trailblazer bids where this work continues. ‘As we have previously confirmed, any pharmacist degree apprenticeship must include an MPharm degree accredited by us and pre-registration training. In addition, all apprenticeship trainees would have to pass our registration assessment before registering as a pharmacist.’ Date: 24-05-2019 Categories: • News |
| On my patch – Wales: ‘There is still that mindset that it’s all about GPs’ ... d a £1.4m cash injection to Welsh community pharmacy funding for 2018/19, saying this would ‘secure further changes’ to the 2019/20 contract In the same month, a £3.6m investment in a multi-sector pre-registration training programme for 2020/21 was announced, rising to an additional £4.9m by 2023/24 In May, £100,000 was set aside for training Welsh pharmacists to manage minor ailments, after the Common Ailm ... Date: 23-07-2019 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views |
| June pre-reg exam skewed towards hospital pharmacy, say students Candidates who sat June’s pre-registration exam felt the assessment was skewed towards hospital pharmacy, a student body has told the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). Students told the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (BP ... Date: 12-08-2019 Categories: • News |
| Pre-reg exam: GPhC names worst-performing pharmacy schools The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has named the pharmacy schools with the lowest pre-registration exam pass rates. A report on the June 2019 pharmacy registration assessment by the regulator found that there was a ‘wide’ variety in pass rates between different pharmacy schools. While the av ... Date: 11-09-2019 Categories: • News |
| Pre-reg exam: Lower pass rate for community placements linked to ‘quality’ of pre-reg tuition, says GPhC The variation in pass rates between students who undertake pre-registration training in community and hospital settings is linked to the ‘quality’ of pre-registration tuition, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has said. The 1,904 candidates who completed placement ... Date: 14-10-2019 Categories: • News |
| September pre-reg pass rate rises to 69%, GPhC announces ... d the September assessment, adding that he looks forward to them joining the regulator’s register. Placement before re-sits axed This week (21 October), the GPhC updated its pre-registration manual to say that from 2020 it will remove the requirement for students who wish to re-sit the registration assessment to complete a mandatory six-month placement. A spokesperson for the regulato ... Date: 25-10-2019 Categories: • News |
| Early career pharmacist framework to support ‘flexible’ working across sectors ... ctors within the pharmacy profession by applying previous learning to new settings’, according to the framework. In April, the Welsh Government announced that it would invest £3.6m in multi-sector pre-registration training – the first of its kind in the UK – to enable flexible working across community pharmacies, GP practices, hospitals and other settings. The framework added that foundation pharmacists sho ... Date: 18-11-2019 Categories: • News |
| Pharmacy regulators to introduce joint pre-reg exam across UK from 2021 ... t they will introduce a common registration exam across the UK from 2021. The GPhC is currently responsible for setting the exam sat by pharmacy students in England, Scotland and Wales after their pre-registration year, whereas the PSNI does the same for pharmacy students in Northern Ireland. The regulators announced yesterday (5 December) that the assessment will be set by a single board of assessors that ... Date: 06-12-2019 Categories: • News |
| Community pharmacy provides a lower standard of training than hospitals, say pre-reg students ... t offers, according to a recent study. The study published yesterday (February 26), in The International Journal of Practice Pharmacy, analysed data from 2,694 applications from the national pre-registration pharmacist recruitment scheme, and surveyed over 300 students to determine how pharmacy students selected their pre-registration training providers. Only 16% of students ranked communi ... Date: 28-02-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| Pharmacy team credited with saving a suspected Covid-19 patient’s life as she waited for ambulance A London community pharmacy team has saved the life of a suspected Covid-19 patient who had been unable to get a hold of emergency services in time. A pre-registration pharmacist from Harbs Pharmacy in Ealing - who asked not to be named - rushed to the house of the suspected Covid-19 patient after she had struggled to get through to the ambulance service. The w ... Date: 02-04-2020 Categories: • Covid-19 • Latest News • News |
| Elsy Gomez Campos: Why racist abuse in pharmacy goes unreported ... hed jointly by Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and UK Black Pharmacists Association (UKBPA) today, has revealed that more than two-thirds of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists across primary and secondary care have still not been given risk assessments by their managers. Alongside this lack of support, many BAME pharmacy team members have been penalised and ... Date: 25-06-2020 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views |
| Plan to employ 50 community-based mental health pharmacists as part of NHS investment in workforce ... ntred care’ and to create ‘a sustainable supply of prescribing pharmacists with enhanced clinical and consultation skills’. The body consolidated reports that the NHS will be replacing the current pre-registration year with a foundation year. ‘This continuous, educational programme for pharmacists will still be five years in duration, and will link into advanced practice and research training,’ the plan exp ... Date: 31-07-2020 Categories: • Latest News • News |
| Women's health: Offering an emergency hormonal contraception service ... on. Name of pharmacist: Sanjay Doegar. Why did you start offering the service? We’ve been offering the service for somewhere in the region of eight or nine years. We had a pre-registration pharmacist many years ago and he was very keen on additional services. He suggested that he could do all of the ground work on this service and then we would be able to offer chlamydia testing, give ... Date: 03-08-2020 Categories: • Clinical Ambassadors • Women's health |
| 'I'll never forget my first clinical intervention as a provisionally registered pharmacist' ... This is a phrase I’m inclined to say every day during each patient interaction, yet it still feels surreal to me. I do wonder if it’ll get easier to say as time goes on. Of course, not having sat the pre-registration exam (and not knowing when it will be) still makes it seem a little strange. I joined the register as a provisional pharmacist on August 1. Working as a hospital foundation pharmacist in the NHS h ... Date: 15-09-2020 Categories: • Views |
| Keith Ridge predicts a more ‘clinical future’ for pharmacy post Covid-19 ... , while a discharge medicines service will commence in the new year, Dr Ridge said. He also spoke of developments around the accelerated reform of initial education and training for the MPharm and pre-registration, which are designed to ensure a ‘pipeline of pharmacists with clinical skills’ are available. The existing pharmacy workforce will also be able to ‘accelerate their development to the same level o ... Date: 17-09-2020 Categories: • Covid-19 • Latest News • News |
| ‘I faced a GPhC inspection in my second week as a prov-reg pharmacist’ It’s fair to assume that the idea of ‘a provisional licence or registration’ to practice as a pharmacist in the UK had not crossed the minds of the vast majority of the pre-registration pharmacist cohort or those involved in their training. However, this idea has quickly become a reality for many in the midst of this ongoing pandemic - with further details of the upcoming examinatio ... Date: 13-10-2020 Categories: • Views |
| More than half of prov-reg pharmacists working in community pharmacies ... l support, its inspectors have contacted the employer wherever possible ‘to seek assurance that they have made steps to rectify these’. Pre-reg exam Last month, the regulator announced that the pre-registration exam for 2019/20 students will be held ‘in the first quarter of 2021’, after it was postponed earlier in the year due to Covid. The delay in setting a new date had previously been criticised by th ... Date: 30-11-2020 Categories: • News |
| Pre-reg exam date confirmed for March 2021 The delayed pre-registration assessment for 2019/20 candidates will take place on 17 and 18 March 2021, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has confirmed. Candidates will take the online exam at a test centre after conc ... Date: 30-11-2020 Categories: • News |
| GPhC: March pre-reg exam still going ahead but situation ‘under active review' The delayed pre-registration assessment for 2019/20 candidates is still expected to go ahead in March despite calls to cancel it, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has confirmed. In a letter sent to candidates last ni ... Date: 06-01-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| Students who fail pre-reg exam should not be removed from register, says BPSA Students who choose to sit the pre-registration assessment in March should not be removed from the register if they fail the exam, the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (BPSA) has said. In a statement published last week, the student ... Date: 11-01-2021 Categories: • Covid-19 • News |
| GPhC confirms extra pre-reg exam places in Scotland Further test centre places in Scotland for the March pre-registration assessment have been secured, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has announced. The regulator said this means that Scottish candidates who want to sit the pre-registration exam in Scotland ... Date: 03-03-2021 Categories: • News |
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