We provide guidance to education and training providers on how to manage fitness to practice concerns about students and trainees. This is to help put in place robust and effective fitness to practice procedures.
Our guidance provides advice to everyone involved in the education and training of pharmacy professionals about their responsibilities in relation to the fitness to practise of students and trainees. It also gives information on how to assess and address fitness to practise concerns in students and trainees.
Although this guidance is aimed at education and training providers, students and trainees may also find it useful. It can help them understand how educators deal with professionalism concerns and fitness to practise issues.
We have updated the guidance so that it can be used by all providers of education and training which lead to pharmacy professional registration.
Our revised guidance:
- applies to all providers of education and training that lead to pharmacy professional registration, including pharmacy technician education and training and pharmacist foundation training
- includes information on recognising and managing issues before they result in fitness to practise concerns
Case studies
We’ve developed a set of case studies that cover a range of issues that can occur during education and training, including serious misconduct, drug misuse and malpractice. They’re designed to help everyone, including students, trainees and organisations, to interpret and understand the principles of the guidance in practice.
The advice in the case studies is only illustrative of the sorts of concerns which could call a student’s fitness to practise into question and aren’t exhaustive. The outcome of each case will depend on its particular facts.
