Pharmacy students should be registered with Society, says IPMI
Pharmacy students should be registered with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society before they come into contact with patients, the Institute of Pharmacy Management International suggests in response to the Government's
Section 60 consultation.
The institute believes that pharmacy students need to have professionalism
introduced early in their undergraduate career and this could be achieved
by registration with the Society and receipt of The Pharmaceutical
Journal.
It also suggests that universities should be more involved in preregistration
training. In addition, the institute proposes that universities have
a pharmacist in control of the professional elements of the MPharm course,
something that is not currently required.
“Such a post, similar to a superintendent pharmacist, must be at
a professorial level with input to policy and funding arrangements affecting
pharmacy
in the university structure,” it says. The institute proposes that
this becomes a legal requirement in the future.
The IPMI suggests that a register of overseas pharmacists with a reduced
fee should be established and rejects the proposal that practising pharmacists
who are not working should be required to have indemnity insurance.
In terms of the specific questions asked by the Society, the institute
supports UK-wide regulation of pharmacy technicians, believes that the
link between registration and membership should be retained and agrees
that the Society’s main purpose as stated in the Order should be
amended to acknowledge and reflect the Charter. |
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