NHS Education for Scotland

NHS Education for Scotland creates three roles to boost advanced pharmacist practitioners

The programme leads will be tasked with helping health boards plan and implement advanced practice pilots, while working to increase the number of designated prescribing practitioners across community pharmacy.…

NHS Education for Scotland funds a further 186 independent prescriber training places

The funded places will be allocated first to pharmacists on the waiting list for training.…

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.…

More independent prescribers to be trained in Scottish community pharmacy

Independent prescriber training will be given to all pharmacists who complete the NHS Education for Scotland pharmacy foundation training programme, the Scottish government has announced.…

Scottish five-year pharmacy degree will not begin in 2020, government confirms

The five-year integrated pharmacy training will not start in Scotland in September 2020, the Scottish government has confirmed.…

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.…

Scottish government invests £2.85m to expand experiential learning of student pharmacists to new settings

Almost £3m is being invested by the Scottish government to expand experiential learning of student pharmacists, with some funding being used to enable students to experience remote and rural practice.…

Free independent prescribing training offered to community pharmacists in Scotland

Community pharmacists in Scotland will have their fees paid for an independent prescribing course, and locum fees covered while they are training, under a scheme launched in May 2018.…

Survey of Scottish pharmacy workforce

A survey will be conducted to gain a better understanding of staff numbers and skill mix within community pharmacy in Scotland.…

RPS director for Scotland: ‘2017 will be a year of opportunity rather than challenge’

Alex MacKinnon, director for the Scotland at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), tells Julia Robinson what 2017 will mean for pharmacists in Scotland and how RPS Scotland plans to embrace new opportunities on behalf of the profession.…