Health Education England

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.…

HEE told it must train 500 clinical pharmacists in 2019/2020

Health Education England has been tasked with training 500 clinical pharmacists for roles in general practice by the end of 2019/2020, the Department of Health and Social Care has said in its annual mandate.…

Health Education England publishes recommendations for education and training of pharmacy workforce

Health Education England has published a review of current education and training provisions for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, together with recommendations for how those provisions should be reformed to meet the demands of the ‘NHS Long Term Plan’.…

Training places in community pharmacy under threat following GPhC proposals, warn pharmacy bodies

Training placements in community pharmacy are under threat unless the sector is fully involved in implementing plans to introduce a five-year integrated pharmacy degree and the reforms are fully funded, it has emerged.…

Revealed: Education chiefs planned to slash preregistration funding by half

Exclusive: Education chiefs have pulled back from deeper cuts to salary support for preregistration placements because they were concerned over the risk of disruption to the pharmacy workforce, reveals a document obtained by The Pharmaceutical Journal.…

Cuts to preregistration trainee salary funding to be ‘paused’, HEE tells chief pharmacists

Cuts of up to 25% in salary support for NHS preregistration trainees, announced by Health Education England in January 2019, will be “paused” for one year, according to a letter sent to hospital chief pharmacists on 19 February 2019.…