GPhC

The GPhC is coming under increasing pressure to ensure trainees can sit the assessment next month.

The High Court recently granted a GPhC request to extend a suspension against a pharmacist who wishes remove himself from the register. 

The GPhC is seeking permanent legal powers that will allow it to hold remote fitness to practise hearings and to make certain hearings private.

The GPhC has caved in to demands to allow overseas registration assessment candidates to sit the exam online irrespective of time differences. 

Forcing an exam on prov-regs who have worked as pharmacists during a pandemic was a failure, says Mohammed Hussain.

The GPhC has dropped its ban on the sale of Covid-19 antibody tests in community pharmacies following a reversal in PHE's position. 

The GPhC has attempted to fend off concerns that its decisions may have had a negative impact on young transgender individuals. 

GPhC says its “estimate” of a 60 per cent pass rate in the upcoming registration exam is “definitely not a prediction”. 

The GPhC is to hold a consultation on plans to set its registration fees for a multi-year period, rather than reviewing them each year.

The GPhC's new standards for the initial education and training of pharmacists described as a sea change for the profession.

Andrew Andrews assesses whether the GPhC has taken a relaxed attitude to its standards during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Some employers are allegedly cancelling study leave for provisionally registered pharmacists, the PDA claims. 

“Not feasible” to introduce an alternative to the registration exam, the GPhC says as it comes under pressure to scrap the assessment. 

It would not be appropriate for provisionally registered pharmacists to head up pharmacy Covid-19 vaccination sites, the GPhC has said. 

The RPS says it believes provisional registrants should be able to take the assessment remotely.

A GPhC fitness to practise ruling has been referred to the High Court after the regulator was accused of failing to make a finding of antisemitism.

The GPhC is coming under pressure to delay or scrap the assessment for provisionally-registered pharmacists.

The GPhC says it will take steps from 2021 onwards to support all pharmacists who are already on the register to train as independent prescribers.

The GPhC has approved the new standards for the initial education and training of pharmacists.  

Twenty per cent of provisionally registered pharmacists are not currently employed in the sector, according to data published by the GPhC.