Early years/foundation level

More than a half of foundation year training sites do not have a DPP for 2025, reveals local survey

Exclusive: Results from a poll carried out by the Black Country Integrated Care Board showed that 36 of 68 foundation training sites did not yet have a designated prescribing practitioner in place.…

Less than 20% of pharmacists undertook DPP training over the past year, survey reveals

Exclusive: Community pharmacists were the most engaged with DPP training, with almost one-quarter of respondents saying they had undertaken training.…

Pharmacy bodies call for action to ensure access to designated prescribing practitioners

A joint report by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and National Pharmacy Association encourages pharmacies to work together to assess their readiness to provide a prescribing learning environment.…

One-year route to registration for overseas qualified pharmacists proposed by regulator

The registration route would initially apply to non-European Economic Area and non-European Free Trade Association qualified pharmacists.…

Number of pharmacy foundation training places on Oriel increases by 1,000 on previous year

Exclusive: More than 4,000 training places are available for the 2025/2026 training year, compared with just over 3,000 places for the 2024/2025 training year.…

A new way to explore professional skills learning content from The Pharmaceutical Journal

Introducing The Pharmaceutical Journal’s newly reorganised collection of professional skills articles responding to the changing learning requirements of the pharmacy profession.…

Designated prescribing practitioners in primary care to be funded under ARRS scheme

Liz Fidler, senior adviser on pharmacy technicians at NHS England, also announced planned growth in trainee pharmacy technician apprenticeships.…

Community pharmacy training sites without access to a prescribing supervisor advised to withdraw placements

In a statement, the National Pharmacy Association said the chances of sites securing a designated prescribing practitioner in time for the 2025/2026 foundation year “are slim”.…

It is time to rethink prescribing scope of practice and the DPP model for foundation training

William Swain argues that plans to ‘retrofit’ traditional supervision and scope of practice models for early career pharmacist prescribers from 2026 could have a detrimental effect.…

Developing a new model for cross-sector foundation training

By developing a forward-thinking foundation training programme, Danny Bartlett hopes to give preregistration students wide exposure to all facets of clinical and academic pharmacy.…