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Education and accreditation We want you! During April and May, we will be recruiting new members to join our Accreditation and Recognition Panel. We will advertise these posts in the national press. We are seeking new accreditors to refresh the panel and broaden the base of expertise we use. We are particularly interested in recruiting people from universities who work on MPharm degrees and people who are involved in pre-registration training who also work at universities. We want to cover both community and hospital pharmacy. The GPhC accredits and recognises pharmacy courses leading to registration and annotation. These are: • Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degrees leading to pre-registration and then pharmacist registration • Overseas Pharmacists' Assessment Programmes (OSPAPs) leading to pre-registration and then pharmacist registration • prescribing courses leading to pharmacist annotation • competency and knowledge-based qualifications leading to pharmacy technician registration The GPhC also accredits pharmacy, dispensing and medicines counter assistants courses. These are: • dispensing or pharmacy assistants level 2 courses • medicines counter assistant courses The accreditation process involves peer review, site visits, provider self assessment and public reports. Recognition relates to national qualifications delivered across Great Britain. We recognise the quality assurance of the awarding bodies, while not directly accrediting the specific providers. For further details contact Joanne Martin, Quality Assurance Manager (Education) at joanne.martin@pharmacyregulation.org Pre-registration trainees to join accreditation panel We plan to further enhance our accreditation process by recruiting preregistration trainee pharmacists to join the Accreditation and Recognition Panel as newly qualified pharmacists. We will be advertising shortly, with the aim of starting to train these recruits in June. Chief Executive and Registrar, Duncan Rudkin, said: “We are keen to have pre-registration trainees involved in our work in this way and hope there will be plenty of interest in this opportunity. “It is important for us to capture, as part of our accreditation process, the views of people who have recently studied at university and been pre-registration trainees.” We plan to recruit up to six trainees to start panel training in June. They will be able to start panel work when they register with the GPhC and begin work as pharmacists. This will require an annual commitment of approximately six days, including preparation work. All accreditors are paid for the work they do for us. For further details or an informal chat, please contact Joanne Martin, Quality Assurance Manager (Education) at joanne.martin@pharmacyregulation.org 10 Regula+e: March 2012 | Issue 4
Being proportionate Law Commission’s review of regulation Tim Spencer-Lane of the Law Commission explains The Law Commission has recently launched a consultation on the regulation of health care professionals in the UK and social workers in England. The consultation runs to 31 May. Tim Spencer-Lane from the Law Commission provides a brief outline of the key proposals. The regulatory bodies covered by the review include the General Pharmaceutical Council, General Medical Council, General Dental Council, and Nursing and Midwifery Council. The project is the first trilateral joint project between the Law Commission, Scottish Law Commission and Northern Ireland Law Commission. The regulators operate within a wide variety of legal frameworks which have been agreed and amended by Parliament in different ways and at different times over the past 150 years. A complex legislative landscape has evolved on a piecemeal basis resulting in a wide range of idiosyncrasies and inconsistency in the powers, duties and responsibilities of each of the regulators. Our proposed structure would consist of a single Act of Parliament to provide the legal framework for the regulators (as well as the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence). In effect, all the existing governing statutes and orders would be repealed. The broad aim of the proposals is to enhance the autonomy of the professional regulators in the exercise of their statutory responsibilities and enable the regulators to adopt their own approaches to professional regulation in the light of their circumstances and resources. This would be achieved largely by reducing the regulators’ dependence on the Privy Council (and through it, the Department of Health). The regulators would be given broad powers to make or amend rules concerning the exercise of their functions and governance without any direct oversight by Parliament or Government. However, these broad powers would be subject to certain safeguards, such as a duty to consult widely, and accountability hearings before the House of Commons Health Committee and the devolved assemblies. The Government would also be given default powers to intervene where a regulator has failed or is likely to fail to perform any of its functions. The consultation extends to all the main functions of the professional regulators including establishing and maintaining a register, and approving and setting standards for education, conduct and ongoing practice, and the investigation and adjudication of fitness to practise cases. It also extends to business regulation and the powers and duties of some of the regulators to register bodies corporate or regulate businesses, such as the General Pharmaceutical Council. The consultation period will last for three months (the closing date for responses is 31 May 2012), and the final report and draft Bill are expected to be published in 2014. We emphasise that the proposals in our consultation paper represent our initial view about how the law should be reformed. We will review our proposals on the basis of the responses received during the consultation period. We encourage all readers to respond. The consultation paper and summary are available to download from the Law Commission’s website at: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/ Tim Spencer-Lane Upholding standards and public trust in pharmacy 11
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