GPhC

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 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.

The GPhC has said that registration exam candidates in Scotland “should be able” to sit the exam without crossing the border into England.

The PDA has urged the GPhC not to count the assessment this month as one of students' three attempts to pass.  

A pharmacist who sold addictive prescription drugs on the black market from his mother’s pharmacy was today sentenced to a year in jail.

The BPSA has set up a support fund for candidates forced to travel for their registration assessment.

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. 

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.