Since COVID-19 vaccinations became available, we have strongly reminded all pharmacists and pharmacy technicians across Great Britain that they should be vaccinated at the earliest opportunity, unless they are medically exempt.
In the first of a new series of Regulate articles highlighting patient safety issues we encounter during inspections and through other intelligence-gathering, our Clinical Fellow, Aileen O’Hare introduces this article about dispensing errors...
From 1 October 2021 the Botulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) Act comes into force. We have worked with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to explain what this means for regulated healthcare professionals (including pharmacists...
In the blog post for this edition Carole Auchterlonie, our Director of Fitness to Practise, sets out the how and why of our new approach to managing concerns.
Our governing council agreed that we should introduce a multi-year fees cycle and keep a flat-fee structure, rather than introduce differential fees, for registered pharmacy professionals at their September meeting.
This July we have marked the 10-year anniversary of pharmacy technician registration.
In this article, we look at a range of examples of notable practice where pharmacies have met our standards and had a special regard to their equality duties as pharmacy professionals and pharmacy owners.
Nigel Clarke will finish his term as GPhC Chair in March 2022. In this blog post Nigel reflects on his time in the role and sets out the key challenges for the future, as we start the recruitment and selection process for a new Chair.
This month we published our new five-year strategy for how we will manage concerns about pharmacy professionals. Our governing council agreed the finalised strategy in their meeting in June, following our recent consultation.
From this summer, we will be gradually making changes to the fifth year of education and training for pharmacists, as part of the implementation of the new standards for the initial education and training of pharmacists we published in January 2021.
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