To register current Pre-Registration Pharmacy Students at the end of 52 weeks. · petition

What the petition asks

The Pre-Registration Pharmacy assessment has been cancelled denying more than 3000 potential Pharmacists into the healthcare system this year. The exam was never a normality and introduced in the last decade and a half meaning as it stands many Pharmacists practice without sitting it.

The General Pharmaceutical Council has wrongly denied many pre registration pharmacists from practicing in light of COVID-19. This is a partition to put pressure on the council to reconsider their stance on this and offer an alternative way of assessing the pre registration students in a time of a global crisis. This can be done through completed competencies, approval to practice from tutors and completion of the 52 week training period, furthermore if need be an additional internal assessment.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

Decisions about professional qualifications are a matter for individual regulators of professions, and not the Government or Parliament.

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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

Timeline

26 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
11 May 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee