Provisional accreditation for first three courses developed to meet competence requirement for dispensing/pharmacy assistants
The College of Pharmacy Practice, appointed as accrediting agent by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has announced the provisional accreditation of three courses developed to meet the Society’s minimum competence requirements for dispensing/ pharmacy assistant training that will apply from January 2005.
The courses are the Buttercups Training Ltd dispensing assistant course,
the LloydsPharmacy dispensers’ training programme and the National
Pharmaceutical Association dispensary assistants’ course.
The accreditation of all three courses is conditional on various changes
being made to the course material and arrangements for administering
the course. The college is in the process of informing the course providers
about the conditions to be met for final accreditation of their courses.
It gives an assurance to employers that members of staff who are already
enrolled on, or about to start, one of these courses are undertaking
a programme of training that will meet the Society’s requirements.
Janet Flint, the Society’s head of support staff regulation, said: “In
2003, the Society accepted advice from employers and training providers
within the pharmacy sector and adopted a flexible approach to the minimum
competence requirement for dispensing/ pharmacy assistants. It is pleasing
to learn that there are now three accredited training programmes available
for this group of staff in addition to the Scottish/National Vocational
Qualifications Level 2 in pharmacy services.”
Further information on the regulation of dispensing/pharmacy assistants
is available from the pharmacy
support staff page of the Society’s website.
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