Today we’ve raised the issue of medicine shortages with the media.Our spokespeoplehave fronted over 20 interviewsrepresenting the profession which were rolled out acrossa further 40 stations, en […]

Medicine shortages continue to be high up the media agenda. Director for England Ravi Sharma was interviewed on Channel 5 News this evening about concerns about medicines shortages in the face of a n […]

Following last night's 'meaningful vote' in Parliament on the Brexit deal, RPS President Ash Soni said: "We remain consistently focused on how pharmacists can provide the best care t […]

RPS President Ash Soni and practice pharmacist Ben Merriman were interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Health last night about the growing increase in medicine shortages. Highlighting from pract […]

Today we launch the start of our work to produce our first ever Professional Standards for Community Pharmacy Services with the start of a series of events across Great Britain. The standards will set […]

Roles of the regulators as FMD legislation comes into force  On 9 February 2019 the legal requirements of the safety features Delegated Regulation under the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) come into force. All health and care providers, including registered pharmacies, are expected to meet the requirements under UK law.&nbs […]

We have released more data about the performance of candidates in the June 2018 registration assessment, including: first attempt candidates’ percentage pass rate by training provider anonymised marks of individual candidates who passed the assessment at the first attempt and trained in either hospital or community settings, as well as the school of pharmacy where they studied To protect candidates’ personal data, the information includes only those statistics where individual candidates cannot be identified. […]

The GPhC has launched a landmark consultation proposing significant changes to the initial education and training of pharmacists. The proposals in the consultation include:  having one set of standards and learning outcomes that cover the full period of education and training before initial registration as a pharmacist, with closer integration between academic study and practical experience  strengthening experiential learning and inter-professional learning […]

The Contact Centre will be operating under amended hours over the holiday period. During the hours that we are closed, please email your enquiry to info@pharmacyregulation.org and we will aim to respond to your query within 2 – 3 working days.   &nbs […]

The Department of Health and Social Care has laid the Health and Care Professions (Qualifications and Entitlements) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 in Parliament. […]