The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7426 p576-578
11 November 2006

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Workforce update — joiners, leavers, and practising and non-practising pharmacists on the 2006 Register

In this article, Karen Hassell and Liz Seston present demographic data extracted from the 2006 Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists, focusing on those who have joined and left the Register in the previous 12 months and differences between practising and non-practising pharmacists

National workforce census series

Karen Hassell, PhD, is senior research fellow, and Liz Seston is research associate at the Centre for Pharmacy Workforce Studies, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. Correspondence to: Dr Hassell e-mail Karen.Hassell@manchester.ac.uk

SUMMARY

The year 2005 witnessed significant changes in the way in which the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists was organised.

The introduction of the two-part Register, which differentiates between practising and non-practising pharmacists, appears to have resulted in a sizeable number (3,954) of pharmacists leaving the Register in 2005. Most leavers at this time were over retirement age, were not working or lived overseas, so loss to the pharmacy labour market was not thought to be significant.

In addition the number of new entrants to the Register in 2005 continued to show an upward trend. This article explores the state of the Register one year on, reporting demographic data on pharmacists on the Register at the beginning of August 2006 and providing demographic data on entrants and people who left in the period between 5 August 2005 and 4 August 2006.

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