Trainee pharmacists in Wales can now join their curiosity for a funded write-up-registration foundation pharmacist programme, with instruction to begin off in September 2022.
Pharmacists becoming a member of the sign-up from July 2022 onwards might be certified for the programme, which is turning into made obtainable by Cardiff Faculty with Well being and health Coaching and Enhancement Wales (HEIW).
In a press release, HEIW claimed that the programme is “a part of the over-all implementation of the brand new Normal Pharmaceutical Council benchmarks for the unique education and training of pharmacists” and “gives a continuum of apply for brand new registrants early of their careers”.
Employers who host a article-registration foundation pharmacist would require to guarantee secured discovering time for equally the inspiration pharmacist and their apply supervisor, and can acquire a learner grant of £8,034.79 for each yr as very nicely as an yearly apply supervisor grant of £2,731.09.
Elements of the programme ended up initially found to The Pharmaceutical Journal in December 2021 by a HEIW spokesperson who defined that a part of £3m put aside for pharmacy training in Wales in the middle of 2022/2023 would fund “a brand new preregistration pharmacy technician programme, beginning off in February 2022, [and] a brand new article-registration basis pharmacist programme, beginning up in September 2022”.
Cheryl Manner, chair of the RPS Welsh Pharmacy Board, commented: “It is a very good probability for newly registered pharmacists in Wales.
“The programme is predicated on the RPS’s ‘Put up-registration basis curriculum‘ and can help pharmacists give care that satisfies far more refined affected particular person desires and aligns with the ‘A A lot more healthy Wales’ agenda.”
Pharmacists who want to make the most of for the category and firms who need to host a foundation pharmacist might want to submit an expression of curiosity by 4 March 2022.
The programme aligns with a suggestion manufactured by the Pharmacy Faculties Council in August 2020, which proposed that pharmacy instruction and training get the number of “a 4-year diploma with a publish-graduation foundation 12 months 1, which in remodel could be adopted by foundation 12 months 2 following registration”.
The to begin with foundation calendar 12 months for pharmacists commenced in July 2021, altering the previous preregistration calendar 12 months.
In Scotland, funded write-up-registration foundation training began in October 2021, and a much more consumption was due to in February 2022.
In England, pharmacists who concluded their preregistration yr in 2020/2021 can use for the Total well being Instruction England (HEE) ‘Newly licensed pharmacists pathway’, which additionally makes use of the RPS’s ‘Put up-registration foundation pharmacist curriculum’.
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