Why I took a ‘workforce wellbeing’ course for pharmacy managers A pharmacy employer shares her experience of taking a course to improve her employees’ wellbeing in light of rising levels of burn out across the profession.…
How will we generate the new generation of prescribing pharmacists? The Pharmaceutical Journal’s health policy columnist looks at how, in practice, new cohorts of prescribing pharmacists can be taught and supervised.…
More than a half of foundation year training sites do not have a DPP for 2025, reveals local survey Exclusive: Results from a poll carried out by the Black Country Integrated Care Board showed that 36 of 68 foundation training sites did not yet have a designated prescribing practitioner in place.…
Encouraging more pharmacists to become DPPs By setting up a London-wide training project that used case studies of training scenarios from different healthcare settings, Puja Nathwani was able to help 120 non-medical prescribers on their way to becoming designated prescribing practitioners.…
Less than 20% of pharmacists undertook DPP training over the past year, survey reveals Exclusive: Community pharmacists were the most engaged with DPP training, with almost one-quarter of respondents saying they had undertaken training.…
Nearly 900 students dropped out of MPharm after first year in 2021/2022 Exclusive: General Pharmaceutical Council data suggest that 889 out of 4,505 students did not continue the MPharm degree after the first year.…
Pharmacy Schools Council warns of academic staff shortage amid ‘uncontrolled increase’ in MPharm courses A statement from the Pharmacy Schools Council warns that heads of school are under pressure to manage with a smaller staff base or recruit at a lower grade.…
Pharmacy bodies call for action to ensure access to designated prescribing practitioners A joint report by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and National Pharmacy Association encourages pharmacies to work together to assess their readiness to provide a prescribing learning environment.…
NHS England to fund 80 places on accuracy checking pharmacy technician programme Up to ten funded places — which usually cost £330 — will be available each month from August 2024 to March 2025.…
One-year route to registration for overseas qualified pharmacists proposed by regulator The registration route would initially apply to non-European Economic Area and non-European Free Trade Association qualified pharmacists.…
