General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Seminar aims to help improve pass rates for Black-African pre-registration pharmacists

The General Pharmaceutical Council will hold a seminar with the charity Equality Challenge Unit to help investigate why pre-registration pharmacists from a Black-African background have the lowest pass rate for registration assessment.…

BBC sting continues to see fall-out with striking-off of pharmacist

A London pharmacist’s claim that he was making emergency supplies when he sold prescription-only medicines (POMs) to an undercover reporter was not plausible, a fitness-to-practise (FTP) committee ruled as it struck him off.…

Student fitness to practise procedures should be more consistent, RPS conference told

Inconsistency in the way fitness to practise cases are dealt with between different universities may be cause for concern, Mark Pitt of the Pharmacists’ Defence Association told conference audience.…

Public would expect pharmacists to join professional body, says chairman of GPhC

The chairman of the General Pharmaceutical Council has said it is “quite wrong” that there are pharmacists who think they do not need to join their professional body.…

Healthcare at Home has further two months to tackle service problems

A home delivery medicine service with responsibility for more than 150,000 patients has been given another two months to get its house in order.…