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Fees Consultation on reducing renewal fees The GPhC is proposing a ten per cent reduction in renewal fees for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from 1 October - a reduction of £27 for pharmacists, to £240; and of £12 for pharmacy technicians, to £108. This proposal is part of a 12-week consultation on fees which ends on 8 May. Chief Executive and Registrar, Duncan Rudkin said: “As an organisation, we are seeking to work as efficiently and effectively as we can while ensuring we can fulfil our remit to protect the health and safety of patients and the public. “We have delivered efficiency gains over the past year and have a higher number of registrants than forecast. These are some of the factors that have created the conditions for a reduction in renewal fees for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.” 6 Regula+e: March 2012 | Issue 4
Revalidation Other proposals in the fees consultation include: • the fee for pharmacy premises remaining unchanged at £221. This is because we are still developing our approach to regulating registered pharmacies and are not yet in a position to establish the future costs of this work. • continuing to charge a 2 per cent fee for credit card payments. That 2 per cent represents the typical cost levied on us by credit card companies for processing these payments. In the main renewals period at the end of 2012, we paid charges of around £74,000 for transactions by credit card and recovered around £47,000 through the 2 per cent charge. Before the introduction of that credit card charge, those costs were shared across all registrants and pharmacy owners, including those paying by debit card or annual direct debit, or by BACS for premises fees. • where a pharmacy professional has been removed from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s register following a disciplinary committee decision, charge an application fee of £413 for a pharmacist or £283 for a pharmacy technician to join the GPhC register. These applications require detailed consideration. Last year we introduced a higher initial registration fee but now want to introduce a higher application fee, to reflect the additional work involved in processing these applications. The total fee for joining the register (application fee plus registration fee) would be unchanged, which means it would remain equal to the total payable by a registrant who is removed from the GPhC’s register following an FtP committee decision and who later applies to join the register. • adjusting the fees for application for restoration and restoration itself. We currently have a flat fee for applications for restoration to the register. The restoration fee varies according to the original reason for removal from the register, and whether it applies to a pharmacist, pharmacy technician or premises. We believe it would be more logical to have different application fees rather than different restoration feeds, as the additional work to process certain types of application has to be done, whatever the outcome. The total payable for restoration to the register (application fee plus restoration fee) would remain unchanged. For the full list of proposed fees for applications for restoration and restoration itself, go to: http://www.pharmacyregulation.org/ sites/default/files/Fees%20rules%20con sultation%202012.pdf and look at pages 11 to 15. The GPhC’s governing council will consider the outcomes of the consultation at its June meeting and make a final decision then on any new level of fees. We will publicise that decision on our website, in the June edition of our stakeholder e-bulletin, Upda+e, in our July edition of Regula+e, and through the pharmacy press. Any changes to the level of fees would come into force from October 2012. To find out more, download the consultation paper or fill in the online questionnaire, go to www.pharmacyregulation.org/fees-consultation-2012 If you want to print off and fill in the questionnaire, you can send your completed form to: Email: Address: consultations@pharmacyregulation.org with the subject “Fees consultation” Draft 2012 Fees Rule Consultation Response Governance Team, GPhC 129 Lambeth Road London SE1 7BT If your answers take up more than the alloted space, you can attach extra pages if you wish. The deadline for responses is close of business on Tuesday 8 May. Upholding standards and public trust in pharmacy 7
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