22 Feb 2010
The NPA has responded to the General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) consultation on Education Procedures and Registration criteria. The NPA questions the remit of the consultation and the proposals, which could have significant impact on community pharmacists, registered pharmacy technicians and training institutes.
Margaret Peycke, NPA External Relations Manager said: “The remit of this consultation is vast. We believe that the consultation would be more manageable if broken down into sections to enable each aspect to be given the in depth scrutiny required.”
“There are many grey areas in the consultation where it asks to give opinion on vague principles, for example the proposed change from registration examination to registration assessment. Any changes should be based on a clear rationale and developed transparently, otherwise GPhC risks reducing the number of organisations and people willing to be involved in pre-registration training (from the standpoint of premises or tutors). If this happens there would be serious knock on effects for the profession.”
The full consultation response can be downloaded from the resources area of this website or a copy can be requested by email: communications@npa.co.uk.
