MPharm clinical placements: a variable picture across Britain

An overhaul of clinical placements is helping to prepare trainee pharmacists for becoming independent prescribers when they join the professional register, but issues around funding, capacity and expectation are still being ironed out.
Illustration of three nations of the UK on different levels, with people in England looking confused at people with road maps at higher levels in Wales and Scotland

Developing “adaptable pharmacists” and “proficient prescribers” who are confident and capable of working in multidisciplinary teams across healthcare settings from the start of their careers — this was the goal set by the General Pharmaceutical Council in its 2021 standards for the initial education and training of pharmacists.

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