Registration assessment

Pre-registration assessment to be delayed until first quarter of 2021, regulator confirms

The delayed 2020 pre-registration assessment will be held in the first quarter of 2021, the General Pharmaceutical Council has confirmed.…

RPS and BPSA urge regulator to set date for 2020 registration assessment

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association have pressed the General Pharmaceutical Council to announce a date for the 2020 registration assessment.…

What provisional registration will mean for the pharmacy profession

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced radical changes to how the 2020 class of preregistration trainees will transition into their careers.…

Trainee doctors and nurses have been fast-tracked into their professions — why not preregistration pharmacists?

The General Pharmaceutical Council’s decision to delay the summer 2020 registration exam, following the COVID-19 pandemic, has left preregistration trainee Courtney Ella Preston with more questions than answers.…

‘Abusive’ feedback sent to exam board after September 2019 registration exam

A number of pharmacy graduates who sat the September 2019 preregistration exam have sent “abusive” and “unprofessional” feedback to exam board members, it has emerged.…

Pharmacy regulator removes rule that led to preregistration ‘exploitation’

Rules on work placements that had led to some preregistration pharmacists resitting their assessment being “exploited” have been dropped by the General Pharmaceutical Council …

Pharmacists to ‘proof check’ GPhC registration assessment questions after errors found in exam

The General Pharmaceutical Council has introduced “a blind proof check” of its exam questions after three errors were found in the regulator’s June 2019 registration assessment.…

Preregistration exam did not reflect registration assessment framework, candidates tell BPSA

More than 100 preregistration pharmacists have told the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (BPSA) that the June 2019 preregistration assessment did not reflect the General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) framework.…

GPhC June assessment pass rate falls to lowest level since 2011

The pass rate for the General Pharmaceutical Council’s June registration assessment has fallen to its lowest level since the regulator began running the exam.…

Autumn prereg assessment pass rate increases for second year in a row

The number of preregistration trainee pharmacists who passed the autumn registration assessment has increased for the second year in a row, according to the latest results from the General Pharmaceutical Council.…