No new funding for supervisors to support 3,000 pharmacist independent prescribing trainees Exclusive: Health Education England has confirmed it will not provide backfill payments to support designated prescribing practitioner roles, despite a planned expansion in training places…
NHS to fund nearly 330 independent prescriber training places for community pharmacists The training places are open to pharmacists working in England in community pharmacy, health and justice, or primary care settings and will start before March 2022.…
Half of pharmacist training places remain unfilled through Oriel recruitment system Demand for pharmacist trainees has exceeded supply, with just 51% of training places filled through the Oriel preregistration recruitment platform.…
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.…
Health Education England opens registration for interim foundation pharmacist programme The one-year interim foundation pharmacist programme is intended to support provisionally registered pharmacists in England as they transition to full registration.…
Government to train 50 mental health community pharmacists as part of NHS workforce plan for 2020/2021 Health Education England (HEE) has committed to training 50 community-based specialist mental health pharmacists as part of the NHS’s workforce plan for 2020/2021.…
Foundation training programme could replace preregistration year from the summer of 2021 A year of foundation training could replace the pharmacist preregistration year across the UK from summer 2021, Health Education England and NHS England have suggested.…
RPS offers free antimicrobial stewardship training to pharmacists in England The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is offering free antimicrobial stewardship training to pharmacists in England.…
More funding needed to meet ‘NHS long-term plan’, pharmacy leads warn Pharmacy leads responsible for an area that covers 1.5 million people have warned that “urgent action” to increase pharmacy training funds is needed if the pharmacy workforce is to deliver on the ‘NHS long-term plan’. …
Pharmacists to be offered training to become doctors, NHS England chief executive says Pharmacists are set to be given the opportunity to become doctors through extra training, Simon Stevens, chief executive at NHS England, has said.…