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Why I joined the Female Pharmacy Leaders Network

Pharmacy student Ruby Howarth explains how a network of female pharmacy professionals is helping her leave her comfort zone and achieve her career goals.…

Using entrustable professional activities to build the future pharmacist

Entrustable professional activities are used when training MPharm students to address the issue of competencies in practice-based environments not preparing students for real patient problems during experiential learning.…

Pharmacy Inside Jobs: prison pharmacy

In this episode of Pharmacy Inside Jobs, prison pharmacist Kaniksha Aggarwal talks about her career path and the opportunities and challenges in her current role.…

Becoming future-ready: submit your ideas for transforming pharmacy training

The Pharmaceutical Journal is calling on MPharm students and foundation trainees to submit their evidence-based critiques of pharmacy training with the aim of improving practice readiness.…

PJ view: Pharmacy schools must reclaim past progress in closing MPharm awarding gap

Pharmacy schools must take action against the widening MPharm ethnicity awarding gap before it has a significant impact on the sector and its ability to serve diverse patient populations.…

Pharmacy educators should incorporate sustainability into curriculums, says GPhC

Updated guidance urges pharmacy education and training providers to make changes to course provisions to inform future pharmacists about sustainability issues that affect pharmacy and patients.…

Some UCLan students should not have been offered MPharm placements, says GPhC

The General Pharmaceutical Council has intervened at the University of Central Lancashire’s School of Pharmacy owing to “extensive” issues, including a lack of pharmacists as senior staff.…

MPharm applications increase by 50% in three years, data show

Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show that the majority of applicants each year since 2021 were women, representing 66.9% of applications in 2024.…

How student internships are helping to build the future of pharmacy research 

Universities and hospitals in the north of England hosted six interns through collaborative multi-sector placements funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research. Coordinators of the internship programme explain how this has benefitted students and researchers alike.…

New pharmacy school to open at University of Suffolk

Exclusive: The university has said that it has begun the General Pharmaceutical Council process to accredit a pharmacy degree.…