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Monday, March 2, 2009

Pharmacy in UK

A career in pharmacy offers you:

The pursuit of an interest in science
The opportunity to join the NHS healthcare team
A choice of working environments
A competitive salary
The pharmacist is an expert in medicines. A pharmacist can be involved in any aspect of the preparation and use of medicines, from the discovery of their active ingredients to their use by patients. Pharmacists also monitor the effects of medicines, both for patient care and for research purposes.

Pharmacy careers website For information about a career in pharmacy, click here 

Careers leaflets For the Society's leaflets, Interested in pharmacy?, and Career as a pharmacy technician? click on the links below:

Interested in pharmacy?
Interested in pharmacy? (Welsh language version)
Career as a pharmacy technician?
Independent supplement For a supplement on careers in pharmacy published in the 31 August 2006 issue of The Independent newspaper, click here

Contact details:

Tel: 020 7572 2330
Fax: 020 7572 2506
e-mail: careers@rpsgb.org
For more information see the following:

Tomorrow's Pharmacist 

Click here for information about the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Community Pharmacists Group
Click here for information about the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Hospital Pharmacists Group
Click here for information about the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Industrial Pharmacists Group
Click here for information about the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Click here for information about the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Academic Pharmacy Group
Click here for information about the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Veterinary Pharmacists Group
Click here for information about pharmacy support staff

Principles of pharmacy education and training: 

The formal consultation period came to a close on 24 November 2006. For the resulting principles document and an analysis of the consultation responses, click on the links below:
The principles of pharmacy education and training
Principles of pharmacy education and training: consultation analysis
Contact:e-mail: educprincon@rpsgb.org


Fit for the future – background
UK MPharm programmes
Preregistration training
Entry to the register with non-UK qualifications
Continuing professional development & post registration education
Regulation of pharmacy technicians

Postgraduate courses
Prescribing programmes
Application for accreditation
Application forms for universities to apply for accreditation of independent prescribing programmes are available here. Click on the links below:
Accreditation of education and training programmes to prepare pharmacist prescribers
Accreditation of education and training programmes to prepare supplementary prescribers to become independent prescribers (conversion course) 
Prescribing programmes available
The universities listed below have prescribing programmes available (correct May 2007).Note:s = supplementary prescribing programme; c = supplementary prescribing and conversion programmes combined to deliver independent prescribing qualification. Pharmacist independent prescribers will also be qualified to practise as supplementary prescribers; i = independent prescribing programme.
Anglia Ruskin University (s)
University of Bath (s) (c)
University of Bolton (s)
University of Bradford (s)
University of Brighton (s) (c)
University of Central Lancashire (s)
HSHS Cambridge (s)
Cardiff University (s)
University College, Chester (c)
De Montfort University (s)
University of Derby (s) (c)
University of East Anglia (s)
Essex University (s)
University of Glamorgan (s) (c)
University of Hertfordshire (s) 
University of Hull (s)
Keele University (s) (c)
King's College London (s) (c)
University of Leeds (s) (c)
University of Lincoln (s)
Liverpool John Moores University (s) 
London Metropolitan University (s)
London South Bank University (s) 
Medway School of Pharmacy (s)
North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (c)
University of Nottingham (s)
University of Portsmouth (s) (c)
University of Reading (s) (c)
Robert Gordon University (s) (c)
Sheffield Hallam University (s)
University of Strathclyde (c)
University of Sunderland (s) (c)
University of Wales, Bangor (c)
University of Wales, Swansea 
York University 




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