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The contact centre will be closed on Thursday 28 September from 1.30pm until 4.00pm for training purposes.
On Tuesday 14 November the Department of Health laid the Dispensing Errors (Registered Pharmacies) Order before Parliament.
Our next council meeting takes place on Thursday 9 November.
The Department of Health has today launched a consultation on the regulatory reform of health professional regulation in which it asks questions on how to improve the protection of the public through more efficient, responsive and effective regulation.
We are pleased to announce the names of the 481 pre-registration trainee pharmacists who passed their registration assessment in September.
We have published a report which highlights that there was overall support for the proposals for revalidation for pharmacy professionals among respondents to a consultation we held earlier this year.
We have released more data about the performance of candidates in the June 2017 registration assessment
Our next council meeting takes place on Thursday 12th October
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is today launching new standards for the initial education and training (IET) of pharmacy technicians and announcing changes to the criteria for registration as a pharmacy technician.
The GPhC today welcomed the Professional Standards Authority’s (PSA’s) annual review of its performance which found, for the second consecutive year, that the GPhC had met all of the PSA’s standards for good regulation in 2016/17.