The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7461 p84
21 July 2007

Society summary

Registration examination results out on July 20

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society announced — as The Journal was going to press — that results from the summer sitting of its registration examination were to be published on Friday 20 July 2007.

The results were to be published in three ways:

• Candidates will receive a personal notification letter informing them of their result and providing advice about any action that they may need to take as a consequence

• Names of all candidates who have passed the examination will be posted on the Society’s website at noon on Friday 20 July

• Names of all candidates who have passed the examination will be published in The Pharmaceutical Journal on 28 July

The Society recognises that disruption to postal services owing to industrial action may result in some delay but says that results will not be given out to anyone over the telephone. Candidates who have not received letters by Wednesday 25 July are asked to contact Laura McGarry (tel 020 7572 2484, e-mail laura.mcgarry@rpsgb.org) to arrange for duplicate letters to be sent.

The Society also recognises that there will be a number of candidates who will have urgent and legitimate reasons to contact the Society on the day that the results are published but it asks that tutors do not telephone the preregistration division over the next two weeks since staff will need to focus on dealing with the candidates. The division can still, however, be contacted by e-mail (prereg@rpsgb.org).

The Society points out that its regulations are explicit and that the advice given to candidates about processes and procedures for appeals and resits are clear. Tutors should not attempt to intervene directly on behalf of candidates who have failed — the most helpful and constructive support that tutors can give to candidates who have failed is to read and understand the formal processes and procedures and to help the candidates to make the best choices, it says.

Details of the relevant regulations are available from the website and are published in the Tutor Information Book as well as in the Trainee Workbook.

The Society encourages candidates who post letters to the preregistration division to keep copies, and provide a stamped, self addressed envelope or postcard in order to receive acknowledgement of receipt. Candidates are asked to telephone only if they have not had an acknowledgement within 10 working days (in case there is a further postal strike). It advises that it is also prudent to retain proof of posting.