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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. …

How students at the University of Manchester are promoting inter-professional education

Healthcare students at the University of Manchester have set up a society to improve inter-professional learning. Pharmacy student Linda Owens describes its most popular event, the clinical skills evening.…

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.…

Why pharmacy students should volunteer with Team Up

Team Up is a volunteering programme that partners trainee and student healthcare professionals with organisations that help disadvantaged communities. Here, four pharmacy students talk about the projects they participated in.…

My predictions on community pharmacy’s future over the next decade

Now that I have retired from community pharmacy, The Pharmaceutical Journal’s splendid April issue gave me plenty of food for thought to attempt to predict the future of our profession over the next decade. With a pharmacist in every GP surgery, surely the obvious place for medicines use…

Delivering personalised medicines will be our forte

Our expertise is unique, built on a foundation of science, combined with clinical knowledge to improve the health of our nation. This century has seen a revolution in the way medicines are developed, with personalised medicines set to become the norm rather than the exception. We need to ensure that…

BPSA and RPS launch “pre-foundation programme” project

The British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society have announced a joint project to develop a new pre-foundation programme for pharmacy students and preregistration trainees during 2016.…

Preregistration tutors should be held to account to ensure pharmacists meet performance standards

Preregistration pharmacy tutors need to be held to account to ensure that pharmacist trainees meet required performance standards, according to delegates who attended a round table event organised by the General Pharmaceutical Council.…

The five-year pharmacy degree: what have we learnt?

Proposals for a five-year pharmacy degree – where preregistration training is integrated into undergraduate education – have been discussed since 2011. But how is the programme working in universities that already offer it?…

How to design and use learning objectives in clinical teaching

Understanding the value of learning objectives and what makes a successful one.…