CPP to accredit courses for dispensing assistants
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has appointed the College of Pharmacy Practice as its accrediting agent to determine training programmes that are equivalent to level 2 of the Scottish/National Vocational Qualification in pharmacy services. The CPP has been offered a three-year contract.
From 1 January 2005 pharmacists will have a professional obligation to
ensure that dispensing/pharmacy assistants are competent in the areas
in which they work to a minimum standard equivalent to level 2 of the
pharmacy services S/NVQ or are undertaking training towards it. Assistants
who have not been declared exempt from further training under the “grandparent
clause” arrangements will be required to undertake either an S/NVQ
level 2 programme or a programme accredited by the CPP as equivalent
to S/NVQ level 2. An assistant whose work does not include the full range
of S/NVQ level 2 activities may undertake just the relevant units of
the programme.
Course providers wishing to submit their training courses for mapping
should contact the CPP at 28 Warwick Row, Coventry CV1 1EY (tel 024 7622
1359; fax 024 7652 1110; e-mail info@collpharm.org.uk).
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