GPhC’s new guidance for pharmacies providing pharmacy services at a distance
The General Pharmaceutical Council is consulting on new guidance for registered pharmacies providing pharmacy services at a distance. A summary of the draft guidance below for pharmacy owners and Superintendent Pharmacists. The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)...
Good Clinical Governance in Pharmacies
Clinical governance is the system through which pharmacists are accountable for continuously improvement and safeguarding high standards of care. What does good clinical governance in pharmacies look like, and why is it important? With pharmacies increasingly...
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...
