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Foundation-year pharmacists have expressed frustration after technical problems meant they were unable to access their registration assessment results.
Trainees were due to get their results on the morning of 29 July 2025, but the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) published a brief statement on its website that morning, saying that trainees were unable to access their results on the regulator’s myGPhC portal.
Some candidates who sat the summer assessment took to social media to report that they had received notifications that their results were ready to view, but they were unable to see their results when they tried to access myGPhC.
“We apologise for any delays you may experience in trying to access myGPhC to see your registration assessment results this morning,” the regulator’s statement said.
“We are working to resolve the issue and would advise you to try again shortly.”
The GPhC also posted the same message on X.
In response to the regulator’s post on X, one pharmacist wrote: “This is such a disappointment. Trainees have been waiting over six hours to see their results on the most anxiety-inducing day of their careers. Considering how much we pay for our registration, with this cost still increasing, this really is not good enough.”
Pharmacist Jane Charsley posted: “Such a shame this has happened after all these trainees’ five years of hard work.”
Foundation trainee pharmacists must pass the assessment in order to register as a pharmacist. There are two sittings each year: one in summer and one in autumn.
This year’s summer registration assessment took place on 24 June 2025 at test centres across the UK.
The autumn assessment is due to take place on 11 November 2025.
