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School of Pharmacy Newcastle: 2013 Transferred to Newcastle in 2017 [3] School of Pharmacy De Montfort: 1886 [4] School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy East Anglia: 2003 [5] Medway School of Pharmacy: Greenwich & Kent: 2004 [6] School of Pharmacy Hertfordshire: 2005 [7] School of Pharmacy Huddersfield: 2008 School of Pharmacy Keele: 2006
There are four forms of regulated profession in the UK, with respect to the European directives on professional qualifications: professions regulated by law or public authority; professions regulated by professional bodies incorporated by royal charter; professions regulated under Regulation 35; and the seven sectoral professions with harmonised training requirements across the European Union. [5]
Pharmacy technicians may counsel patients on their medication (under the supervision or direction of a pharmacist, though counselling is not one of the learning outcomes for pharmacy technician training) [15] as well as general dispensing of prescriptions. In community pharmacy, it has been recognised that the role is difficult to distinguish ...
89% of the UK population live within a 20-minute walk of their local pharmacy. A majority of the population visit a pharmacy at least once every 28 days. [44] In 2014 more than 1.1 billion prescription items were dispensed in England. This was 34.5 million more than in the previous 12 months and 378.4 million more than in 2004.
Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it links health sciences with pharmaceutical sciences and natural sciences. The professional practice is becoming ...
[21] [22] [23] The GPhC's regulatory duties include setting standards for and accrediting the education and training of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. [24] The GPhC also sets requirements for the education and training of pharmacy support staff. [25] As such, there was an apparent conflict of interests in holding this role.
In addition to this professional qualifications role, the present-day Society also sponsors students and lecturers at UK Medical and Pharmacy Schools, and organises courses and public lectures through two faculties: the Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy and the Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine.
The association has been consulted on proposals for a new single qualification for pharmacy technicians. [2] The association supports plans to allow technicians to oversee the supply of medicines which have been criticised by the National Pharmacy Association. [3] [4] Tess Fenn had been the president of the association since 2014 and stood down ...