Regula+e - General Pharmaceutical Council

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.
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