CUHOP's views on the White Paper 'Pharmacy in England : Building on strengths – delivering the future'

CUHOP response to proposals for a Research Excellence Framework February 2008

Final response to the Clarke Inquiry on a future professional leadership body for pharmacy January 2008

Response to HEFCE proposal to withdraw funding for equivalent or lower qualifications (ELQs) December 2007

Draft Pharmacy Practice Framework: CUHOP response to consultation document from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain October 2007

Comments on UK Public Health Skills and Career Framework produced by Skills for Health.September 2007

A professional leadership body for Pharmacy .
The Government's White Paper Trust, assurance and safety - the regulation of professionals in the 21st century of 26 February 2007 included proposals for a General Pharmaceutical Council to regulate the pharmacy profession and a quite separate other body to lead the profession. CUHOP made a response to the Department of Health in March 2007. For the response in full, click on the title above.

Draft Principles of Pharmacy Education and Training - A response from CUHOP
By letter of 1 June 2006, the President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain invited views from UK universities on Draft Principles of Pharmacy Education & Training. Given the wide scope of the draft principles, it was no surprise that there were a considerable diversity of inputs to a collective response from CUHOP in November 2006. The approach taken was to express representative views while also including what were regarded as important or interesting views or comments made by only one or two CUHOP members. For the response in full, click on the title above.

Healthcare Professional Regulation: Public Consultation on proposals for change
CUHOP responded in respect of a number of the themes and proposals emergent from the review report by the Chief Medical Officer (England) on the arrangements for medical regulation, Good doctors, safer patients and the health departmental review, The regulation of the non-medical healthcare professions. The response was sent within the public consultation initiated by the health departments of the four Home countries, closing on 10 November 2006. For the response in full, click on the title above.

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2006
In the spring of 2006 the UK Government Health Departments consulted on draft regulations relating to the regulation of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. These regulations were to be made under Section 60 of the Health Act 1999. CUHOP was welcoming of some of the proposed new regulations but had a number of reservations. CUHOP also made strongly the suggestion that the regulation of pharmacy and its professional leadership should no longer reside within the single body of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. You can read the CUHOP formal response within the consultation in full by following the link from the title here.

Parliamentary All Party Pharmacy Group inquiry into pharmacy
The Group undertook a wide-ranging enquiry in summer-autumn 2006. The response from CUHOP to Section 8 (pharmacy education and development ) of the Group's reflective questionnaire is at the other end of the link here.