General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

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.…

GPhC fitness-to-practise case did not address antisemitism

The views expressed in this letter are those of the authors. If you would like to submit a letter to The Pharmaceutical Journal, please click here. In 2020, discrimination was brought into tight focus and, in this context, a recent hearing by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) s…

March assessment for provisionally registered pharmacists to go ahead as planned, regulator says

The General Pharmaceutical Council has confirmed that the delayed summer 2020 preregistration assessment for provisionally registered pharmacists is still set to go ahead in March 2021.…

Registration assessment could move as part of education overhaul, regulator’s chief executive says

The General Pharmaceutical Council would be open to the prospect of making changes to the registration assessment, Duncan Rudkin, chief executive of the regulator, has said.…

Everything you need to know about pharmacy foundation training

Universal foundation training for pharmacists is being introduced sooner than expected, with an interim foundation programme launched this autumn and a one-year foundation scheme set to replace the current preregistration year from July 2021.…

The pharmacy registration assessment must change if foundation pharmacist training is to succeed

If foundation training is to equip future pharmacists with the clinical and prescribing skills they need, the registration assessment must be held near the end of the MPharm, rather than after it, says pharmacy practice lecturer Hannah Kinsey.…

Delayed preregistration exam must be sat in person, pharmacy regulator says

Candidates sitting the delayed summer 2020 preregistration assessment will have to travel to an examination centre to sit the papers in person.…

The regulator should have given preregistration students full registration by trusting honest accounts from their tutors

The views expressed in this letter are those of the author’s. If you would like to submit a letter to The Pharmaceutical Journal, please click here. I have been a pharmacist for more than 30 years and a preregistration tutor for some 12 years now. I take a keen interest in th…

Pharmacy trainees to have 90 hours of prescribing training, under draft GPhC standards

Pharmacy trainees will be given “at least 90 hours” of supervised practice in independent prescribing as part of the new foundation year programme, the General Pharmaceutical Council has said.…

Regulator ‘following up’ Boots’ provision of rapid point of care COVID-19 antigen test

The General Pharmaceutical Council is to “follow up” Boots’ announcement that it plans to roll out a rapid point of care antigen test for COVID-19.…