Health Education England

HEE to extend opportunities for preregistration pharmacists in GP practices

Health Education England has announced the expansion of a preregistration training pilot scheme that offers trainee pharmacists the opportunity to split their time between general practice and community or hospital pharmacy. …

Health Education England: clarifying the cuts to preregistration funding

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s editorial ‘Cuts to pharmacy preregistration training are reckless — they must be reversed’ (21 January 2019) included a number of assertions and inaccuracies that Health Education England (HEE) would like to respond to. HEE has been reviewing…

Nine in ten places on GP practice preregistration pilot scheme filled

Health Education England has seen a 90% fill rate for its GP preregistration pilot scheme, which is due to start in the summer of 2019.…

Funding for preregistration pharmacists to be cut by up to 25% across England, HEE announces

Salary support funding for NHS preregistration places across England will be cut to 75% from September 2020, Health Education England has announced.…

Pharmacists and technicians should reap benefits of NHS leadership programme

Health Education England (HEE) welcomes the attention placed on the Mary Seacole leadership programme in Hemant Patel’s ‘A message to Keith Ridge: unrealistic expectations are not the way forward’, and we are pleased to see that he and his local pharmaceutical committee colleagues …

London weighting needed to tackle preregistration vacancies in the capital, says LPC chief

Preregistration pharmacists who want to work in the community sector in London should be paid a higher training grant in order to tackle vacancy rates, a local pharmaceutical committee chief officer has said.…

Pharmacist awarded £350k to improve adherence in bipolar disorder

A mental health pharmacist at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has received a grant to improve medicines adherence in patients with bipolar disorder.…

HEE launches North School of Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation

A new “virtual faculty” to co-ordinate multidisciplinary education and training around pharmacy and medicines optimisation has launched across the north of England.…

Common foundation programme to be introduced for all pharmacists, reveals CPhO

All pharmacists will take part in a common foundation programme after preregistration training, under plans being developed by NHS England and Health Education England.…

Just 62% of community pharmacy preregistration places filled under new application system

All hospital preregistration places due to commence in August 2018 have been filled in England and Wales, while a third of preregistration places in community pharmacy have been left unfilled.…