Most pharmacists on RPS mentoring programme seeking help with career development, study finds Mentees that were part of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's mentoring programme were found to be mostly seeking advice and support on career progression.…
Voting opens for the RPS National Pharmacy Board elections 2021 The deadline for voting in the 2021 Royal Pharmaceutical Society National Pharmacy Board elections is 17:00 on 13 May 2021.…
GPhC figures show 90% pass rate for provisionally registered pharmacists in registration exam Data published by the pharmacy regulator show 90.4% of provisionally registered pharmacists have passed the March 2021 assessment.…
Only 13% of IBD teams meet standards for pharmacist involvement A report by IBD UK, an alliance of professional bodies, has found that few inflammatory bowel disease services in the UK have enough expert pharmacists.…
RPS calls for greater use of pharmacist independent prescribers The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has published recommendations to support the increased use of pharmacist independent prescribers over the next decade.…
Pharmacists who fail their registration assessment will be offered alternative jobs or time off, employer says Exclusive: Multiple offers support to provisionally registered pharmacists who will have to stop practising if they do not pass their assessment.…
Scottish Labour pledges to increase pharmacy training places in election manifesto Ahead of Scotland's parliament election on 6 May 2021, the Scottish Labour Party said it would increase training places for pharmacists to “implement better planning of the multidisciplinary team”.…
23 May 1955: Prince Philip becomes the first honorary Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society The day that the Duke of Edinburgh accepted an honour from the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.…
Risk of rare blood clot up to ten times higher in COVID-19 infection than after vaccination The risk of cerebral venous thrombosis from COVID-19 infection was found to be eight to ten times higher than the risk from receiving the current COVID-19 vaccines.…
Almost 400 candidates withdrew from March 2021 registration assessment Exclusive: More than twice as many candidates withdrew from the exam, compared with the most recent summer sitting.…