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Overseas pharmacists’ visas extended for a year

The Home Office has announced that overseas frontline healthcare workers, including pharmacists, will have their visas extended for a year. Visas of over 6,000 health professionals...

GPhC excludes overseas pro-reg pharmacists from assessment

Provisionally registered pharmacists who are currently residing outside the UK will no longer be allowed to appear for the March registration exam, the General...

GPhC to consult on new registration route for international pharmacists in 2025

"Our Council has listened and decided to propose one single route for all non-EEA/EFTA internationally-qualified pharmacists," Duncan Rudkin, Chief Executive of the GPhC, announced. In...

House of Common debates on puberty blockers and pharmacists’ challenges over prescription

MPs discussed the UK's approach to prescribing puberty blockers for gender incongruence, emphasising the challenges pharmacists face with overseas prescriptions "Not possible for pharmacists to...

NHS England bars puberty blockers U18s: Pharmacists to navigate new regulatory hurdles

Pharmacy professionals asked to "advise, prescribe, dispense and administer medicines within limits" for cases related to gender incongruence or dysphoria NHS England's decision to forgo...

GPhC register witnesses 2.5% increase of pharmacists registered in last one year

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has witnessed a 2.5 per cent increase of pharmacists on register in the last one year.  According to GPhC registers...