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. 

The GPhC is seeking permanent legal powers that will allow it to hold remote fitness to practise hearings and to make certain hearings private.

The GPhC has caved in to demands to allow overseas registration assessment candidates to sit the exam online irrespective of time differences. 

The GPhC has dropped its ban on the sale of Covid-19 antibody tests in community pharmacies following a reversal in PHE's position. 

The GPhC has attempted to fend off concerns that its decisions may have had a negative impact on young transgender individuals. 

GPhC says its “estimate” of a 60 per cent pass rate in the upcoming registration exam is “definitely not a prediction”. 

The GPhC is to hold a consultation on plans to set its registration fees for a multi-year period, rather than reviewing them each year.

The GPhC's new standards for the initial education and training of pharmacists described as a sea change for the profession.

Some employers are allegedly cancelling study leave for provisionally registered pharmacists, the PDA claims. 

“Not feasible” to introduce an alternative to the registration exam, the GPhC says as it comes under pressure to scrap the assessment. 

It would not be appropriate for provisionally registered pharmacists to head up pharmacy Covid-19 vaccination sites, the GPhC has said. 

The RPS says it believes provisional registrants should be able to take the assessment remotely.

A GPhC fitness to practise ruling has been referred to the High Court after the regulator was accused of failing to make a finding of antisemitism.

The GPhC is coming under pressure to delay or scrap the assessment for provisionally-registered pharmacists.

The GPhC says it will take steps from 2021 onwards to support all pharmacists who are already on the register to train as independent prescribers.