Foundation trainees
This collection of resources has been created to support your preparation for the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration assessment as you take the final step towards your future pharmacy career.
You can access advice on how to plan and structure revision time effectively or practice the different types of pharmacy calculations that will feature in the exam.
To help you revise the learning outcomes related to therapeutic approaches, links have been provided to our clinical condition ‘hub’ pages where you can access expert authored content on a range of different topic.
Exam preparation
Preparing for the GPhC registration exams: how to approach learning outcomes relating to professional practice
Preparing for the GPhC registration exams: how to revise learning outcomes relating to clinical knowledge and therapeutic approaches
Calculations
Preparing for the GPhC pharmaceutical calculations assessment
Medication maths: estimations of kidney function
Medication maths: using a resource or artefact when calculating doses and dose regimen
Medication maths: displacement volumes and values
Medication maths: dilutions
Medication maths: calculations involving molecular weight
Medication maths: infusion rates
Medication maths: using provided formula
Medication maths: how to solve dose and dosage calculations (video)
Medication maths: how to solve infusion calculations (video)
Medication maths: quantities to supply and using provided formulae calculations (video)
Medication maths: how to solve pharmacy calculations — concentrations, dilutions and health economics (video)
A guide to rounding for pharmacy students and trainees
Paediatrics
Regulator sets actions for safeguarding in pharmacy weight management services
Pharmacy research must help shape the profession’s next chapter
Fluoroquinolone prescribing in Wales reduced by over one-third over 12 months
Health news round-up: new cancer drugs, pharmacogenomics, and whether GLP-1s cause erectile dysfunction
Paxlovid speeds COVID-19 recovery but does not reduce hospital admissions
Creating ‘pharmacist personas’ as a practical tool for navigating a system in flux
Proposed standards for responsible and superintendent pharmacists ‘risk patient safety’
Prescribing
Case-based learning: sedating medicines, breastfeeding and safe sleeping advice
Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefit when prescribing anticoagulation in an older patient with falls risk
Prescribing unlicensed and off-label medicines
Principles of effective prescription writing for pharmacist prescribers
Prescribing dilemma: high-cost biologics in moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis
Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors and B-cell malignancies: a guide for pharmacists
Supported content
Creating effective assessment activities for foundation trainees
Latest Learning & CPD
Adverse effects of CAR T-cell therapy for non-specialist teams
Isotretinoin use: best practice
How pharmacists can implement effective health coaching in everyday practice
Recognition and management of whooping cough
Menopause symptoms: recognition, diagnosis and treatment strategies
Supported content
Case-based learning: meningitis
