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The General Pharmaceutical Council’s work to transform the way that registered pharmacies are regulated has taken a significant step forward. The GPhC’s governing council agreed that the new approach to inspecting pharmacies is ready to be introduced from 4 November 2013.
Nigel Clarke has been appointed as Chair-designate of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and will formally start in the role on 13 March 2014. His appointment was made by the Privy Council.
The next meeting of the GPhC Council will take place on Thursday 12 September 9, 2013 at the GPhC’s offices at 129 Lambeth Road, London, SE1 7BT.
The GPhC has been alerted that one batch of letters to registrants containing their Notice of Renewal has arrived without any postage having been paid on the envelope. Some registrants have sought to collect this mail from local post offices and have been asked to pay the outstanding amount.
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is launching its first major survey about the day-to-day roles and responsibilities of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
The GPhC’s Board of Assessors has agreed that the following sources will be the reference texts for the 2014 sittings of the registration assessment - British National Formulary (BNF) 67 March 2014 - September 2014 and 2013-2014 British National Formulary for Children (BNFC)
Pre-registration trainees must apply for the registration assessment in September by no later than 5pm on Friday 16 August 2013. Candidates who miss this deadline will have to wait until the Summer assessment in 2014, as there is no longer an option to pay a late entry fee.
Candidates who want to join the Council of the pharmacy regulator for Great Britain have until 13 September 2013 to apply.
This edition of Regulate has information about improving medicines advice, Ken Jarrold CBE, chair of the rebalancing initiative programme board, on 'getting the balance right' and a guide to renewing registration.
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has welcomed the opportunity of working with the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (BPSA) to look at feedback from the June registration assessment and consider changes to future assessments.