The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7282 p69
17 January 2004

Society summary

Competencies project report now available online

The report of a consultation on a project concerned with the competencies needed by the future pharmacy workforce can now be downloaded from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's website (www.rpsgb.org). The report shows that most respondents support the project and believe it will make a useful contribution to the development of the profession (PJ, 3/10 January, p35).

The consultation, by the Society’s policy support unit, had asked for views on the project’s first phase. This had involved analysing the likely impact of recent national policy developments and then drafting a new competency framework by combining the outcome of the analysis with the current frameworks for pharmacy undergraduate education and preregistration training.

A report on the results of an initial “reality testing” of the new competency framework, involving 150 pharmacists, is expected to be published within the next few weeks.