Your career as a community pharmacist can take you down many paths. We'll be right by your side the whole way; supporting you in your day-to-day practice, and championing the great work that you do to stakeholders, like the government and other royal colleges.
We offer a wide range of member benefits, so here's a snapshot of how we help our community pharmacist members:
Assistance from day one of your career
From preparing for your first day, to working as a locum, being the responsible pharmacist, or even prescribing controlled drugs as an independent prescriber. It's all in our dedicated community pharmacy hub, which has over 60 sector-specific resources. Our confidential 1-to-1 professional support service provide practical, evaluated advice over the phone, or online.
Support to ensure you're revalidation ready
The GPhC are introducing revalidation in 2018. Understand the changes and get prepared with our dedicated set of revalidation tools and resources, including case studies and interactive CPD modules from the Pharmaceutical Journal.
Expert guidance on supplying reclassified and P medicines
Our exclusive reclassifications hub provides all you need to know on supplying reclassified and P medicines such as the morning after pill, anti-malarials, proton pump inhibitors, and chloramphenicol.
Opportunities to further your career
Our Foundation and Faculty programmes are designed to develop you professionally, and recognise your standard of practice. We also offer a mentoring service, and resources to help develop your leadership skills.
Tools & resources for a safe, compliant working environment
Our resources on near miss errors, professional judgement, declaring interests, and whistleblowing can help you practice in a safe environment, and comply with legal and GPhC guidelines. We also continue to campaign for read-write access for pharmacists to the patient health record so you can provide high quality, safe, and effective patient care.
Confidence to answer tricky questions
Not sure what you'd do if you were asked to supply salbutamol, or an adrenaline auto-injector to a school? How about supplying veterinary medicines? Not to worry, we have quick reference guides to support your decision making.RPS members also receive Medicines, Ethics and Practice (MEP) to help support your professional judgement.