The General Pharmaceutical Council is still failing to hit its performance standards when it comes to dealing with fitness to practice concerns.

The GPhC has said it will seek to “arrange a more effective booking process” for future registration exams after many faced difficulties in March. 

Provisionally registered pharmacists in Scotland who failed the March registration assessment are to receive financial support from the NHS to resit. 

Eighty-eight per cent of candidates sitting the online registration assessment in March achieved a pass, the GPhC announced this morning.

Community pharmacists could play a valuable role in prescribing for a wide range of common and long-term conditions, says the RPS. 

The Professional Standards Authority is unlikely to publish a report into the GPhC's performance “before late in the year".

The GPhC is disproportionately tough on individual registrants compared to pharmacy owners and premises, the PDA has claimed. 

GPhC chief Duncan Rudkin says an internal review of what went wrong leading up to the March exam is under way.

Pharmacist Support says the number of calls it has received from students about March's assessment is down on previous years.

The Government is proposing that health regulators such as the GPhC are given greater powers to set more of their operating procedures.

The GPhC has commissioned Keele University researchers to look into the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on trainees. 

Plans to introduce a common registration exam across Great Britain and Northern Ireland have been pushed back to autumn “at the earliest”.

A “small number of candidates” experienced technical issues that prevented them from sitting the first online registration exam, says GPhC. 

The GPhC will extend provisional registration to January of next year as it pushes back the dates for its summer and autumn exams.

The GPhC has said that registration exam candidates in Scotland “should be able” to sit the exam without crossing the border into England.

The PDA has urged the GPhC not to count the assessment this month as one of students' three attempts to pass.  

A pharmacist who sold addictive prescription drugs on the black market from his mother’s pharmacy was today sentenced to a year in jail.

The BPSA has set up a support fund for candidates forced to travel for their registration assessment.

The GPhC is coming under increasing pressure to ensure trainees can sit the assessment next month.

The High Court recently granted a GPhC request to extend a suspension against a pharmacist who wishes remove himself from the register.