GPhC

Andrew Andrews examines a revamped inspection regime from the GPhC for community pharmacies.  

Current chair Nigel Clarke said the new appointee "will have the opportunity to help shape the future of pharmacy".  

GPhC and chief pharmaceutical officers acknowledge vital role technicians play in pharmacy teams

The high court has ordered the GPhC to reopen a fitness to practise case involving allegations of antisemitism

The GPhC has reminded pharmacy teams to ensure they have safeguards in place when prescribing valproate to patients.

The GPhC has said it will seek to "arrange a more effective booking process" for future registration exams after many faced difficulties in March. 

Provisionally registered pharmacists in Scotland who failed the March registration assessment are to receive financial support from the NHS to resit. 

Duncan Rudkin says the GPhC took the best decisions possible on March’s assessment with the information it had at the time. 

Eighty-eight per cent of candidates sitting the online registration assessment in March achieved a pass, the GPhC announced this morning.

Community pharmacists could play a valuable role in prescribing for a wide range of common and long-term conditions, says the RPS. 

The Professional Standards Authority is unlikely to publish a report into the GPhC's performance "before late in the year".

A locum who confessed to writing a fraudulent prescription for “suspicious” quantities of codeine did so after being threatened, a court has heard. 

The GPhC is disproportionately tough on individual registrants compared to pharmacy owners and premises, the PDA has claimed. 

GPhC chief Duncan Rudkin says an internal review of what went wrong leading up to the March exam is under way.

Pharmacist Support says the number of calls it has received from students about March's assessment is down on previous years.

The Government is proposing that health regulators such as the GPhC are given greater powers to set more of their operating procedures.

The GPhC has commissioned Keele University researchers to look into the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on trainees. 

Plans to introduce a common registration exam across Great Britain and Northern Ireland have been pushed back to autumn “at the earliest”.

A “small number of candidates” experienced technical issues that prevented them from sitting the first online registration exam, says GPhC. 

The GPhC will extend provisional registration to January of next year as it pushes back the dates for its summer and autumn exams.