Preregistration trainee

Entrustable professional activities: a new approach to supervising trainee pharmacists on clinical placements

Changes to General Pharmaceutical Council education standards mean there is an increasing need for meaningful placement experiences in which trainees can practise their skills and demonstrate competence. Entrustable professional activities are a valuable tool for trainees and their supervisors.…

Developing a new model for cross-sector foundation training

By developing a forward-thinking foundation training programme, Danny Bartlett hopes to give preregistration students wide exposure to all facets of clinical and academic pharmacy.…

Autumn registration assessment pass rate rises to 66%

The 66% overall 2023 pass rate is the second highest of the past five years of the autumn registration assessment.…

Pharmacy regulator to increase registration fees by 7.5% from April 2024

In a statement, the GPhC Council said it “had to raise the fees in order to be in a position to continue to carry out regulatory work”.…

Employers will need to confirm access to DPPs for all trainees by March 2024, says NHS England

Speaking at The Pharmacy Show on 15 October 2023, Atif Shamim said employers will be required to confirm their access to a prescribing learning setting before training commences.…

Regulator to monitor registration assessment performance of three further pharmacy schools

Data from the General Pharmaceutical Council's report on the June 2023 registration exam show low pass rates for students from the University of Hertfordshire, University of Lincoln and University of Portsmouth.…

Can community pharmacy meet the demands of training more pharmacists?

A survey of the community pharmacy workforce has raised questions about whether the sector will have the capacity to help train a planned increase in the number of trainees by 2031/2032.…

Summer registration assessment pass rate is 77%, GPhC figures show

The pass rate for the June 2023 sitting of the registration assessment is a slight fall on that of the previous year.…

Pharmacy regulator proposes 7.5% increase in registration renewal fees from 2024

Following a freeze in registration fees for two years, the General Pharmaceutical Council has noted that its proposed increases are below inflation.…

Spotlight: Ethnicity and the pharmacy degree

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Kv8FtYRAWXQ7GeK1k0zHP In this second Spotlight episode of The PJ Pod, we talk through an investigation that has shown the awarding gap between white pharmacy graduates and their ethnic minority counterparts in the UK has narrowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. …