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NES to hold online sessions to support provisional pharmacy registrants

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By Pb Staff writerNov 26, 2020
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The NHS Education for Scotland (NES) has announced online sessions.for provisional pharmacy registrants to help them in the next assessment scheduled for next year.

Two of the three optional sessions will be held on December 8 and 10, with the final session scheduled for January 12.

During the online support sessions, NES will update on the GPhC and NES Pharmacy mock assessments.

It will also signpost the provisionally registered pharmacists to revision materials and receive suggestions on the additional support required by the budding pharmacists.

A panel of pharmacists from the NES Pharmacy team will answer questions, including on the NES Foundation Training Programme.

NES said it will use the questions from this session to help develop FAQ’s to be uploaded to Turas. The pharmacy registrants may sign up to these sessions on the provisional registrant Turas page.

NES online support session dates:

December 8, 2020 from 01.00 to 02.00pm

December 10, 2020 from 07.30 to 08.30pm

January 12, 2021 from 01.00 to 02pm

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