The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is the regulatory body for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy premises in the UK.
The GPhC is responsible for ensuring that pharmacy professionals follow the professional standards they set and that they comply with the laws relating to medicines and poisons. The GPhC also has standards for pharmacy premises.
The GPhC only considers concerns about fitness to practise. 'Fitness to practise' refers to the skills, knowledge, character and health a pharmacy professional must have to do their job safely and effectively. This should not be confused with being fit to work.
All pharmacy professionals have to abide by the law, as well as the standards of conduct, ethics and performance, which is a range of professional standards that the GPhC publish. A pharmacy professional’s fitness to practise can be impaired for a number of reasons that include:
misconduct
lack of competence
ill-health, or
having been convicted of a criminal offence
Examples of things a complainant might report to the GPhC include:
dispensing errors
sexual assault
pharmacy professionals working...
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