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Recertification shake-up: A timesaver or a gateway to employment inequity?
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Recertification shake-up: A timesaver or a gateway to employment inequity?
Friday 3 July 2020, 10:32 AM
Michael Pead
The Pharmacy Council is planning big changes to pharmacists’ recertification from 1 April next year. The current points-based competency assessment system is to be replaced with an entirely new “trust and assurance” model. Jonathan Chilton-Towle gauges pharmacists’ reactions to the plan
The Pharmacy Council announced last month it is changing the way pharmacists are recertified – while some say the proposed changes will make life easi