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MPharm degrees with preparatory year, 2020-21 academic yearSubmission template This template should be read in conjunction with MPharm degrees with preparatory year : Guidance for schools of pharmacy and GPhC Future Pharmacists: standards for the initial education and training of pharmacists.

Academic year: 2020-21

Name of University:

Name of Department:

Contact name:

Job title:

Address:

Telephone/mobile:

Email:

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https://www.pharmacyregulation.org/sites/default/files/document/future_pharmacists_standards_for_the_initial_education_and_training_of_pharmacists.pdf

https://www.pharmacyregulation.org/sites/default/files/document/future_pharmacists_standards_for_the_initial_education_and_training_of_pharmacists.pdf

This template should be used by course providers to demonstrate how the MPharm degree with preparatory year provision meets the GPhC standards for MPharm degree programmes.

You do not need to complete this template if you are also providing a submission for reaccreditation of your MPharm degree. Instead, please include commentary within the reaccreditation submission template, making sure you clearly differentiate between the content for the preparatory year and the accredited MPharm.

The submission must include: This template, completed in full, to include a narrative explaining how the course provision

meets each of the following standards: o Standard 1: Patient Safetyo Standard 4: Selection of Students o Standard 6: Support and Development for Students

Detail of any differences between the provision for the MPharm with preparatory year and accredited MPharm that relate to the remaining 6 standards.

Documentary evidence to support the information you have provided within the template (no additional documents should be provided)

If you have any questions regarding this submission, please contact the GPhC Education team at [email protected]

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Important – please read the guidance below before completing the template

General notes regarding completion of this template

Except where single pieces of information or lists are asked for, your commentary must be written in prose. Directions to other documents only will not be accepted.

Any diagrams or images should be submitted as documentary evidence and not embedded with the tables.

Hyperlinks may be used within your commentary to signpost to evidence but please check that the links are not broken and that external access is permitted.

Each module must be referred to by its full title and not by module code. Should your commentary relate to more than one criterion, it does not need to be

repeated next to each. Simply include a note referencing to the relevant commentary, e.g. ‘please refer to commentary under criterion 4.2a’.

Information within the template that is shaded grey or shown in grey italics is only applicable to those offering an MPharm degree with intercalated periods of pre-registration training.

A guidance section is included for each standard. Please delete the guidance sections before submitting to us.

Referencing documentary evidence

Please give each piece of evidence a clear and meaningful title. For ease of reference, supporting documents should be numbered accordingly.

The document title referred to in your commentary should be identical to the name of the relevant .PDF file you have provided.

Please ensure that all file names are concise and do not contain any special characters including: / \ : * ? ” < > | # { } % ~ &

You do not need to duplicate evidence - you may find that you need to refer to one piece of documentary evidence multiple times across more than one standard.

When referencing supporting documents within the submission, please indicate the document clearly (for example, in bold) and use the full name and appendix number throughout.

NB. When completing your submission, please do not alter the formatting or orientation of the submission template.

Please delete these guidance sections above before submitting your document to us.


Introduction

Your introduction must include: An introduction and scene setting to provide a background to the introduction of this

version of the MPharm degree. How the long the course has been offered. Information on current student numbers, and projected student numbers for the next

three academic years (include data for the MPharm degree with preparatory year only)

Provider’s commentary

Please type your commentary here

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Standard 1 – Patient and public safety

There must be clear procedures to address concerns about patient safety arising from pharmacy education and training. Concerns must be addressed immediately.

Standard met? Yes ☐ No ☐ (accreditation team use only)


Evidence:

For this standard, please provide evidence which covers the following:

Fitness to practise policies Summary outcomes of student fitness to practise hearings Evidence that the Standards for Pharmacy Professionals 2017 1are used to promote

professional conduct Good character policies and checks such as Disclosure and Baring Service or

Disclosure Scotland Health checks

Guidance:

Anyone who teaches, supervises, counsels, employs or works with students has a responsibility to protect patients and the public. Where serious concerns are raised about a student they must be investigated as soon as possible.

Students must not be allowed to continue education and training if they pose a risk to patients or the public.

Students should not be put in a situation where they are asked to work beyond their competence, and they must be supervised where necessary.

Anyone responsible for initial education and training of pharmacists has a responsibility to share information relating to health, conduct or performance of students with appropriate people. In particular, information should be shared with anyone providing clinical teaching or supervision. A student should be asked to agree to this. If they do not or cannot agree, consideration must be given to whether disclosure should take place on patient grounds. Patient safety is paramount at all times.

By awarding an accredited degree a university is confirming that a pharmacy graduate is fit to enter pre-registration training.

Schools’ fitness to practise policies and procedures must be introduced to students as developments tools as well as instruments of public

Detail should be given of any patient safety/fitness to practise requirements students must meet to progress to the second taught year (year 1 of accredited MPharm)

1.1 There must be effective systems in place to ensure that students and trainees:

1.1.a Do not jeopardise patient safety;



1 The GPhC standards for pharmacy professionals 2017 have replaced the standards of conduct, ethics and performance and code of conduct for pharmacy students.


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Accreditation team’s commentary.

Criterion met? Yes ☐ No ☐For accreditation use only (to delete once commentary is added)

1.1.b Only do tasks for which they are competent, sometimes under supervision;



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1.1.c Are monitored and assessed to ensure they always practise safely. Causes for concern should be addressed immediately;



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1.1.d Have access to support for health, conduct and academic issues;



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Criterion met? Yes ☐ No ☐


For accreditation use only (to delete once commentary is added)

1.1.e Must not be awarded an accredited degree or pass pre-registration training if they might pose a risk to patients or the public; Where an accredited degree cannot be awarded, it may be possible to award another, unaccredited qualification such as a certificate, diploma or BSc;



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1.1.f Understand what is and what is not professional behaviour and are familiar with the GPhC’s standards for pharmacy professionals 2017;



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1.1.g Understand what fitness to practise mechanisms apply to them. All schools of pharmacy must have fitness to practise procedures to deal with student causes for concern;



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1.1.h Undergo required health and good character checks;



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1.1.i Understand that it is an offence to impersonate a pharmacist. Pharmacists are registrants of the GPhC.



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Criterion met? Yes ☐ No ☐


Standard 4 – Selection of students and trainees

Selection processes must be open, fair and comply with relevant legislation. Processes must ensure students and trainees are fit to practise at the point of selection. Selection includes recruitment and admissions.


Evidence:

For this standard, please provide evidence to demonstrate:• That selection processes and procedures comply with relevant legislation• That all the criteria in 4.2 is being applied• That staff involved in the selection have been trained appropriately and made

aware of relevant legislative requirements


Guidance:

All selection requirements should be set out clearly in guidance made available to applicants. Applicants must know what will happen to them during selection, including what health and good character checks will be made relating back to criterion 1.1.h.

Guidance should include information about additional costs, such as travel, accommodation and that health and good character checks will be made.

It must be made clear to students that the GPhC will not offer prospective registration advice.

It must be made clear to students that an applicant can appeal against a registration refusal and that appeals must be made to our Appeals Committee.

It must be made clear to students that the GPhC will carry out our own health and good character checks before registering an applicant. It must be made clear to students that these checks relate to registration and are additional to checks made by universities and employers. It must be made clear to students that the GPhC may not register a student if a check is failed, even if they passed their previous checks.

Health checks could include self-evaluations and/or evaluations by healthcare professionals.

Detail should be given of any requirements students must meet to progress to the second taught year (year 1 of accredited MPharm), and how these requirements are communicated to student before admission.

4.1 Selection process must give applicants the information they need to make an informed application.



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4.2 Selection criteria must be explicit. They should include:

4.2.a meeting academic and professional entry requirements;



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4.2.b meeting English language requirements appropriate to MPharm degree study. Guidelines issued by English language testing bodies should be followed to ensure that admissions language requirements are appropriate;



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4.2.c meeting numeracy requirements;



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4.2.d taking account of good character checks, such as Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)/Disclosure Scotland checks;



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4.2.e taking account of health checks;



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4.2.f recognising prior learning, where that is appropriate;



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4.3 Selectors should apply selection criteria fairly. They should be trained to do this. Training should include equality and diversity matters



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Standard 6 – Support and development for students and trainees

Students and trainees must be supported to develop as learners and professionals during their initial education and training.


Evidence:

For this standard, please provide evidence which covers the following:

Evidence of any development learning Student CPD portfolios

Guidance:

Students must work with a range of academic and professional role models. The range must include:- academic staff in pharmacy, including practice staff, scientists, researchers and

support staff- tutors- other healthcare professionals.

Students must have access to support for their academic and general welfare needs. Support must be readily available to students. If students are working off-site, appropriate support mechanisms must be in place.

Students should have access to career advice. If it is no longer possible for students to continue on an MPharm, they should be told

what other options are available to them by their school of pharmacy.

6.1 A range of mechanisms must be in place to support students and trainees to develop as learners and professionals.



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Additional information

The MPharm with preparatory year provision must meet all of the initial education and training standards for pharmacists. It is assumed that the course provision for taught years of the accredited MPharm will be identical for students on both routes and so detailed commentary has not been requested against the remaining 6 standards. It is also assumed that teaching and assessment of all the learning outcomes will take place in taught years subsequent to the preparatory year.

The accreditation team will therefore take assurance that this version of the MPharm meets the remaining standards through its detailed review in relation to the current accredited MPharm provision.

If there are any differences between the MPharm with preparatory year provision and the current MPharm provision that have not already been provided above, please detail them below



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Standards 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9 are met based on assurance from review of the accredited 4-year MPharm provision Yes ☐ No ☐ (accreditation team use only)



Documentary evidence

List below the documentary evidence that you are providing (suggested maximum 15)

If you are also submitting documentary evidence for an MPharm interim event and wish to refer to any of

Appendix 1: XXX Appendix 2: XXX Appendix 3: XXX(expand table as necessary)


Submitting your documentation to the GPhC

You must send the following electronically via email or a secure link:

A Word and a PDF version of your submission document A PDF version of each item of documentary evidence

[email protected]

Please ensure that the documentation arrives with the GPhC’s Education team on, or before, the deadline date that you have been given.


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