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Pharmacy regulator consults on annual monitoring of pharmacy education providers

The General Pharmaceutical Council has launched a consultation on collecting yearly data, including student feedback, admissions and performance, from educational organisations.…

Developing a new model for cross-sector foundation training

By developing a forward-thinking foundation training programme, Danny Bartlett hopes to give preregistration students wide exposure to all facets of clinical and academic pharmacy.…

Revisiting 2023: a look back at the year in pharmacy

In this episode, The PJ team take a look back at 2023 in pharmacy before sharing their predictions for the year ahead.…

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.…