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The General Pharmaceutical Committee (GPhC) has announced that it will review its core regulatory standards for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in response to growing demands on community pharmacy and the rapid pace of change in healthcare.

Speaking at the Pharmacy Show at the NEC on 5 October, GPhC chair Nigel Clarke said that the review would focus on the meaning of professionalism in pharmacy in the wake of recent events such as those at Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust, where regulation and governance had failed. 

€We want our Standards for Conduct, Ethics and Performance to sit at the heart of what you do as professionals,€ he said. €We will shortly be starting a wide ranging programme of engagement with all our stakeholders to ask some fundamental questions of you, the pharmacy profession, about what you see as professionalism in action, and how you think our standards best reflect this.€

He went on the say that the review would consider difficult issues in pharmacy, such as conflicts between personal beliefs and clinical roles, as well as the difficulty of juggling workplace pressures and targets, and urged everyone connected to the pharmacy sector to contribute.