Principles agreed for accreditation of support staff training courses
The Council has approved a set of principles for the accreditation of pharmacy support staff training programmes that meet the Society's policy requirements.
At the April Council
meeting, it was agreed that the Society, using these
principles, should accredit all courses other than those that are accredited
by national education regulatory bodies.
Accreditation would centre on a visit from a team drawn from the Society’s
accreditation panel, the membership of which would be adjusted as necessary
to ensure a sufficient pool of experts in support staff curriculum and
process. The full cost of the accreditation process, including central
costs, would be recovered from the training providers.
It was agreed that the process should be operational by the end of 2006
and would be reviewed at the end of the first accreditation cycle.
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