Can community pharmacy meet the demands of training more pharmacists?

A survey of the community pharmacy workforce has raised questions about whether the sector will have the capacity to help train a planned increase in the number of trainees by 2031/2032.
An illustration of a toy set of a medical centre, community pharmacy and hospital, with a path for trainee wooden toy pharmacists but there's a backlog to them getting to the toy sets and a suited arm opening gates to let them through.

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The ‘NHS long-term workforce plan’, published in June 2023, did not shy away from big promises.

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