Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007

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  This section provides information on the setting up of a new professional body for pharmacy, alongside a new regulatory body, as part of a fundamental modernisation of the pharmacy profession

The Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 overhauls and modernises pharmacist and pharmacy technician regulation. It was made on 7 February 2007. 

For more information, click on the links below:

• Amending the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007
• Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 (Section 60 Order)

Amending the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007

On 21 December 2007 the Government published proposals for an Order to amend the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 (P&PTO), so as to bring pharmacy technicians in Scotland into the regulatory arrangements (among other changes).  This publication marked the start of a 13-week period of public consultation.

To see the Government’s proposals, click on the link below:

• Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) No 2 Order 2008: a paper for consultation

For an overview of the scope of the draft Order, with brief explanations of the provisions relating to pharmacy, click on the link below:

• Overview and provisions related to pharmacy

RPSGB response For the Society's response to the consultation, click here

For the Society's press statement, click on the link below:

• Society welcomes consultation on new legislation to amend Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 (Section 60 Order)

For the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order and subsequent amending legislation, click on the links below:

• Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007
• The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 *
• The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2007 *

* These Regulations update the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order, among other legisation, in line with European Community Directive 2005/36/EC

The new Order, which takes the form of a section 60 Order and which entirely replaces the Pharmacy Act 1954, will enable the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) to provide a modern and open system for the improved protection of patients and the benefit of health professionals.

The main provisions of the Order are:

• Improved capacity to address fitness to practise issues and health matters
• Reform of the Society’s registration process
• Updated provisions for education, training and continuing professional development (CPD)
• Statutory registration of pharmacy technicians in England and Wales.

Amendment to pharmacy technician provisions to include Scotland

The new arrangements relate to England, Wales and Scotland for pharmacists, and England and Wales only for pharmacy technicians. However, Ministers have announced that an amending Order is planned for later in 2007 that will extend the arrangements to pharmacy technicians in Scotland [see above].  The bringing into force of provisions in the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order that relate to pharmacy technicians will accordingly be delayed until this amending Order is made, so that pharmacy technician provisions across Great Britain can be brought in at the same time.

There are separate arrangements for the regulation of pharmacy in Northern Ireland.

If you have any comments or questions about the Order please send them by e-mail to:

Christine Gray / Elaine Mulingani

or write to:

C Gray/E Mulingani
3rd Floor
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
1 Lambeth High Street
London SE1 7JN
Fax: 020 7572 2506

Please include your name and registration number with all comments

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