Over half of consultation respondents support plans to end two-year wait to become independent prescriber The General Pharmaceutical Council has proposed removing the requirement for a pharmacist to have two years of patient-orientated experience to become an independent prescriber to meet demand for the role.…
Pharmacy regulator appoints new chair Gisela Abbam will take over from Nigel Clarke on 14 March 2022.…
RPS supports permanent move to remote fitness-to-practise hearings The Society said that the increased likelihood of registrants attending remote hearings meant they had the potential to improve patient safety.…
Pharmacy regulator fails to meet fitness-to-practise standards set by watchdog A review has found that the General Pharmaceutical Council has failed to meet all five fitness-to-practise standards for the third year in a row.…
Six-fold increase in registration applications from overseas pharmacists Exclusive: Data from the General Pharmaceutical Council show that there were 353 applications for the Overseas Pharmacists Assessment Programme between 4 March 2021 and 17 October 2021.…
Trainees to use new online platform for pharmacy registration exam in 2022 The General Pharmaceutical Council plans to run the registration assessment online until at least 2024.…
Hundreds of provisional pharmacists could be removed from GPhC register Provisional registrants who have not joined the main register by 31 January 2022 will no longer be able to practise as pharmacists.…
Trainees told to wait until November 2021 to retake registration exam after technical problems The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has written to the pharmacy regulator to ask for a "fairer solution" for affected candidates.…
GPhC intends to provide registration assessment online until 2024 Exclusive: The General Pharmaceutical Council has said it is currently tendering a contract for a supplier to provide a computer-based registration assessment in UK test centres over the next three years.…
Scottish Pharmacy Board meeting: 13 May 2021 At the latest Scottish Pharmacy Board meeting, there was a special focus on education, with the aim of identifying priorities to take forward for the incoming board.…
