Nothing beats practical experience during pharmacy trainingI realise that present-day requirements for pharmacy education may be very different from those in my day at the end of the Second World War and in the 1950s, but, having read comments on the General Pharmaceutical Council’s proposal to integrate practical placements throughout a five-year pha…
Bawa-Garba wins appeal to be reinstated to medical register A paediatric trainee who was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after the death of a six-year-old boy from sepsis has won her appeal to be reinstated to the medical register and continue to practise as a doctor.…
GPhC gender pay gap below national average According to the General Pharmaceutical Council’s gender pay gap report 2017, its male employees earn, on average, 14.2% more than their female colleagues, which is below the national average.…
Doctors’ reflective statements should be legally privileged, General Medical Council says Reflective statements completed as part of doctors’ learning and development process should be legally protected so that courts cannot demand to see them, the General Medical Council (GMC) has said.…
Future of GPhC could be at risk The number of UK health profession regulators — which includes the General Pharmaceutical Council — could be slashed from nine to just three or four in radical reforms set out today (31 October) by the Department of Health.…
Peer discussion to become pharmacy’s proof of professionalism This is the first in a series of in-depth articles The Pharmaceutical Journal will be running on revalidation. The General Pharmaceutical Council is currently evaluating responses to its consultation on the new proposals, which closed on 17 July 2017. In this article, we examine those prop…
Online GP service Push Doctor Limited not providing safe care, according to CQC Following a comprehensive inspection, the Care Quality Commission has reported that online GP service Push Doctor Limited was not providing safe care in accordance with current regulations.…
Government is considering merging pharmacy regulator with others The number of regulators of healthcare professionals may be slashed, with bodies merged into new organisations, the Department of Health has confirmed.…
My concerns with changes to the conscience clauseI read with interest about the proposed change to the conscience clause for pharmacists ( The Pharmaceutical Journal online, 22 December 2016). This concerns me. I have been a Christian for 59 years and a pharmacist for 36 years. One of the reasons I chose pharmacy was th…
Patients should be free to choose where to access services, regulators say GPs and community pharmacists should not allow financial interests to influence the advice they give patients about where to access services, their respective regulators have told them.…
