Northern Ireland doubles number of pharmacy undergraduates since 2020 The Pharmacy Futures Campaign NI was launched in 2020 to build capacity across the pharmacy workforce.…
This is a drill: the simulations training next-generation pharmacists From artificial intelligence to virtual reality, schools of pharmacy are making use of the latest in simulation technology to prepare future pharmacists for their digitally-enabled careers as prescribers.…
RPS condemns ‘unjust’ exclusion of pharmacy students from government support fund Pharmacy students are not currently eligible for the NHS learning support fund, which offers help for healthcare students on practice placements.…
Clinical placements can give pharmacy students a real-life lesson in health inequalities Teaching staff at the University of Nottingham School of Pharmacy say their practical placement pilot for second-year MPharm students should be adopted more widely to promote a reduction in health inequalities.…
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.…
MPharm students to be able to dispense medicines on undergraduate clinical placements The University of Bath has produced a list of 47 entrustable professional activities that MPharm students can undertake during supervised clinical placements.…
Only pharmacists have signed up to postgraduate pharmacogenomics course Exclusive: The course, run by Bangor University, had 16 participants in its first year, all of whom were pharmacists.…
The pharmacy workforce, in lieu of a plan The Pharmaceutical Journal’s health policy columnist delves deeper into pharmacy’s worsening workforce crisis.…
An evaluation of pharmacy undergraduate clinical placements in a UK mental health and learning disabilities trust All undergraduate pharmacy degrees in the UK must meet standards set out by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and this includes the provision of experiential learning in pharmacy settings[1,2]. Providing high-quality experiential learning in mental health settings can contribute toward…
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. …
