How our services can drive regulatory improvement for pharmacists and pharmacies
Drawing on GPhC data, we look at what the main causes of poor performance in pharmacies are and how our services can drive regulatory improvement. Standards which play a key part in a pharmacy’s overall performance The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) sets...
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...
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...
