The following guidance information and templates are for current and potential course providers:
All courses and qualifications:
- Standing conditions of accreditation and recognition
- Request to make changes to approved course/qualifications
- Guidance for students attending accreditation/recognition meetings
Foundation Training Year (FTY) Programmes
Master of Pharmacy (MPharm)
Education standards
- Standards for the initial education and training of pharmacists, January 2021
- Guidance to support 2021 IETP Standards
- Adapted methodology for reaccreditation of MPharm degrees to 2021 standards
- Guidance on MPharm degrees with preparatory year
- Accreditation methodology, MPharm degrees Sept 2013
Submission templates
- MPharm IETP 2021, 4yr reaccreditation part 1 submission template, 2021-22 (LOs by Domain)
- MPharm IETP 2021, 4yr reaccreditation part 1 submission template, 2021-22
- MPharm IETP 2021, 4yr, and 5yr integrated reaccreditation part 1 submission template, 2021-22 (LOs by Domain)
- MPharm IETP 2021, 4yr, and 5yr integrated reaccreditation part 1 submission template, 2021-22
- MPharm IETP 2021, step accreditation template, 2021-22 (LOs by Domain)
- MPharm IETP 2021, step accreditation template, 2021-22
To avoid duplication, only a single template needs to be completed for reaccreditation regardless of the number of MPharm variants a provider delivers e.g. if the provider offers both an accredited 5-year integrated degree and a 4-year degree (or other variant such as the 2+2 model), only the 4yr, and 5 yr submission template needs to be completed. If a provider offers a MPharm with preparatory year and a 4 year MPharm (or other variant such as the 2+2 model) the MPharm submission template needs to be completed (please ensure that the separate provisions are correctly identified within the submission document via headings and associated appendices are identified by programme type). Please contact the GPhC if you have any questions in respect of the correct submission template to be completed.
*accreditation step events for 5-year MPharm degrees will continue under the IETP 2011 standards unless separate arrangements have been agreed with the GPhC.
Pharmacy foundation degree
Submission template
- Please contact education@pharmacyregulation.org for a template
Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree course taught in part overseas (2+2)
Submission template
- Please contact education@pharmacyregulation.org for a template
Overseas pharmacists’ assessment programme (OSPAP)
We are currently reviewing the OSPAP standards. During the interim period, we will continue to use the Standards for the education and training of non-EEA pharmacists wanting to register in Great Britain 2011. Events will take place in the form of interim events, with full commentary under the individual standards, until such time that new standards are published and provision can be fully reaccredited to the new standards.
Education standards
- Standards for the education and training of non-EEA pharmacists wanting to register in GB, 2011
- Accreditation methodology - OSPAPs
Submission template
Independent prescribing
Education standards
Evidence framework
Submission template
Monitoring events
All providers of newly accredited independent prescribing courses must have a monitoring event after the first cohort of students has completed the course. This includes an evaluation of the clinical skills teaching element of the course.
- Please contact education@pharmacyregulation.org for a template
Request to use non-medical Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPPs) as part of a GPhC approved course
Please complete the below submission template should you wish to use non-medical Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPPs) as part of your GPhC approved course. This submission template is intended to be used by providers who are accredited to the pre-2019 standards and who wish to use non-medical DPPs. However, course providers who have already been accredited to the 2019 standards, but who were asked to resubmit their non-medical DPP application to the GPhC, should also complete this submission template.
Please note, course providers who have a planned GPhC reaccreditation event scheduled for 2021/22 should not use this template and should complete the independent prescribing re/accreditation submission template (found above), as part of the reaccreditation process.
Pharmacy technician
Education standards
Evidence framework
Guidance
Submission templates
Support staff (Level 2)
Education standards
Evidence framework
Submission template
- Parts 1 and 2 support staff submission template 2021-22
- Part 3 support staff submission template 2021-22 - Apprenticeship Framework England
- Part 3 support staff submission template 2021-22 - Apprenticeship Framework England and National Occupational Standards
- Part 3 support staff submission template 2021-22 - National Occupational Standards