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NHS Education for Scotland creates three roles to boost advanced pharmacist practitioners

The programme leads will be tasked with helping health boards plan and implement advanced practice pilots, while working to increase the number of designated prescribing practitioners across community pharmacy.…

The pharmacy workforce, in lieu of a plan

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s health policy columnist delves deeper into pharmacy’s worsening workforce crisis.…

All hail, the specialist generalist!

As pharmacists are called upon to manage more complex patients, the need for advanced generalist skills is becoming more pressing.…

Pharmacy regulator proposes 7.5% increase in registration renewal fees from 2024

Following a freeze in registration fees for two years, the General Pharmaceutical Council has noted that its proposed increases are below inflation.…

An evaluation of pharmacy undergraduate clinical placements in a UK mental health and learning disabilities trust 

All undergraduate pharmacy degrees in the UK must meet standards set out by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and this includes the provision of experiential learning in pharmacy settings​[1,2]​. Providing high-quality experiential learning in mental health settings can contribute toward…

Spotlight: Ethnicity and the pharmacy degree

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Kv8FtYRAWXQ7GeK1k0zHP In this second Spotlight episode of The PJ Pod, we talk through an investigation that has shown the awarding gap between white pharmacy graduates and their ethnic minority counterparts in the UK has narrowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Call for nominations for RPS Fellowship

Why, as a profession, do pharmacists find it difficult to recognise and celebrate success? Celebrating success is such an important aspect of our professional lives but one we do not seem to do well. Awarding Fellowship  of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) is one of the high…

Infographic: the ethnicity awarding gap for the pharmacy degree during COVID-19

Changes to pharmacy degree assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic may have helped to narrow the awarding gap between white graduates and their ethnic minority counterparts, but work is ongoing to understand why.…

NHS England to offer extra 25 placements in health and justice sites for trainee pharmacists

The additional placements mean there will be 26 trainee pharmacy placements at health at justice sites in 2024/2025.…

Royal Pharmaceutical Society collaboration will offer fully-funded pathway for advanced pharmacist practice

There are 300 places available for the first cohort, with more expected to be made available later in 2023.…