Do ethnic minority-led practices have poorer ratings?
According to the Care Quality Commission (CQC), providers led by GPs of an ethnic minority background have raised concerns that they do not receive the same regulatory outcomes from CQC as providers led by GPs of a non-ethnic minority background. Research conducted by...
Fitness to practise implications when a pharmacy is the subject of enforcement action
Individual pharmacy professionals working in various roles and capacities such as SIs, RPs, or PIPs may have played a role in the system failings. The GPhC considers it not to be in the public interest to allow the pharmacy professional who has potentially played a...
Can GPhC enforcement action lead to fitness to practise sanctions?
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is taking enforcement action against online pharmacies and pharmacists for not adhering to its standards for registered pharmacies. According to the GPhC (since April 2019[1]: it has undertaken 680 inspections of online...
Community pharmacies must “carefully consider” safe care – GPhC
The General Pharmaceutical Council tells community pharmacies to ensure they comply with standards of safe care. Duncan Rudkin, Chief Executive and Registrar and Roz Gittins, Chief Pharmacy Officer and Deputy Registrar wrote: “We are writing to you at a time...
