Amazon secures ‘Amazon Pharmacy’ trademark in the UK The trademark's registration comes after Amazon acquired US online pharmacy PillPack in 2019, although critics say face-to-face pharmacy interaction is valuable.…
More registration exam places provided as regulator apologises again for problems Duncan Rudkin, chief executive of the General Pharmaceutical Council, said the regulator was working to "identify additional capacity" for the March 2021 assessment.…
Joy Wingfield (1947–2021) As professor of pharmacy law and ethics and a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Joy Wingfield was dedicated to promoting the interests of pharmacy during her varied career.…
RPS Wales joins other bodies in calling for government action on health inequalities The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales is among health organisations who have called on the Welsh government to reduce health inequalities.…
Overseas candidates will be allowed to sit registration assessment remotely, regulator says The General Pharmaceutical Council has said most candidates living in countries with a two-hour or more time difference from the UK will be able to apply to sit the registration assessment at home.…
Regulator looking at ‘flexibility’ that would allow overseas candidates to sit registration assessment The General Pharmaceutical Council has said it is “doing all we possibly can” to see if there is any flexibility for overseas candidates to sit the March 2021 registration assessment in their home countries.…
RPS and pharmacy students’ association call for rethink over overseas exam decision The Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association have said overseas registration exam candidates must not be discriminated against.…
‘My job is fairly easy compared with yours, isn’t it?’ — what this PJ reporter learned volunteering for the COVID-19 vaccination service Pharmacy journalist Corrinne Burns thought she knew the profession until she signed up to support her local pharmacy’s COVID-19 vaccine effort.…
Candidates barred from sitting registration exam overseas live in countries with six-hour or more time difference The General Pharmaceutical Council has informed candidates in countries with more than a six-hour time difference from the UK that they cannot sit the exam in their home country.…
Some overseas candidates told they cannot sit March preregistration assessment The pharmacy regulator has said candidates in some countries outside the UK will not be able to take the exam where they are living.…