Specialist clinical skills training for 10,000 community pharmacists to be provided in England Pharmacists, including locums and those who work part time, will be able to take one specialist training module per financial year.…
Pharmacy foundation training: how has the first year gone? Pharmacy trainers and the first ever cohort of foundation pharmacy trainees share their experiences and what they would like to see improved.…
Boots to offer training bursaries for 500 pharmacists to become independent prescribers The bursaries form part of the multiple's plan to have a pharmacist independent prescriber in each of its stores.…
Educational supervision, assessment and feedback for pharmacists An outline of educational supervisor roles and the skills needed for effective supervision.…
Help wanted: mentor shortage for potential prescribers As the drive to train many more independent prescribing pharmacists continues, there is an urgent need to increase the number of designated prescribing practitioners to supervise those undertaking a course.…
MPharm students to have bigger role in medicines supply during clinical placements Exclusive: To attract the education and training tariff, placements "must be meaningful clinical" and not "workplace shadowing", Health Education England has said.…
Funded independent prescriber training for 3,000 pharmacists to begin later in 2022 Education providers have been invited to bid for contracts worth up to £13m in total to provide independent prescribing courses between 1 September 2022 and 31 March 2023.…
Pharmacy students will have consistent funding for clinical placements for the first time Any undergraduate placement taking place during the MPharm degree will be eligible for the £5,000 tariff funding.…
Extra 165 places made available for independent prescriber training in first three months of 2022 The national workforce strategy also pledges to create an additional 89 preregistration training places in Scotland by 2024/2025.…
Funded post-registration foundation pharmacist programme to begin in Wales The programme will start in September 2022 and is being offered by Cardiff University with Health Education and Improvement Wales.…
