Registration assessment

RPS offers support to preregistration students after GPhC reports 41% pass rate

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has offered its support to preregistration pharmacists who are struggling to come to terms with their results following the September 2016 registration assessment.…

Pass rate for GPhC assessment drops below 50%

Just 40.8% of trainee pharmacists who sat the registration assessment in September 2016 passed, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has revealed in figures published on 28 October 2016.…

GPhC reveals training providers with 100% pass rate for preregistration pharmacists

At least 14 training providers recorded a 100% pass rate for their preregistration pharmacist trainees who took the registration assessment for the first time in June 2016, according to data published by the General Pharmaceutical Council.…

Four British pharmacy schools achieve top pass rates

Four pharmacy schools achieved a 100.0% pass rate for students sitting the professional registration exams for the first time this June, the British pharmacy regulator has revealed.  The pharmacy schools at the University of Bath, Cardiff University, De Montfort University and King’…

Many factors affect pharmacy registration exam results, GPhC report finds

Ethnic background and the sector in which pharmacy students have trained continue to influence preregistration assessment results, according to a report presented at the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) council meeting on 8 September 2016.  Which institution a student studied at…

Pass rate for new GPhC registration assessment reaches four-year high

The pass rate for candidates who took the revamped registration assessment for new pharmacists in June 2016 is the highest it’s been for four years, the General Pharmaceutical Council has revealed.…

Working together to serve the interests of pharmacists in Scotland

Ailsa Power, associate postgraduate pharmacy dean at NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and vice chair of the RPS Scottish Pharmacy Board, talks to Julia Robinson about how NES and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society are working together to support Scotland’s 4,500 pharmacists. …

GPhC sheds light on lower pass rates in Black-African pharmacy students

An investigation into why Black-African trainee pharmacists perform less well in the registration assessments has been carried out by the General Pharmaceutical Council and the results suggest they could be more likely to struggle because many are also mature or overseas students.…

How to revise for the new pharmacy registration assessment

Nadia Bukhari and Harsha Parmar provide tips for preregistration trainees sitting the registration assessment in its new format.…

Review of 2015: ten developments that are changing pharmacy

The pharmacy landscape continues to shift amid a backdrop of austere UK public spending and the rising spectre of centralised dispensing in the community. The Pharmaceutical Journal presents ten developments that affected pharmacists in 2015.…