The Pharmacy (Premises Standards, Information Obligations, etc.) Order 2016 (Commencement) (England, Wales and Scotland) Order of Council 2018 came into force on 24 May. This strengthens the GPhC’s powers to regulate registered pharmacies, including for the first time giving the GPhC powers to publish inspection reports. It also brings about a number of changes to the GPhC’s enforcement powers for pharmacies failing to meet the standards for registered pharmacies.

In response Duncan Rudkin, Chief Executive of the GPhC said: 

Our customer contact centre phone lines are not open today (Wednesday 16 May) due to staff availability, and will reopen at 9.00am tomorrow.  If you have an urgent issue regarding patient safety, please visit our website at www.pharmacyregulation.org and follow the guidance for raising a concern, or alternatively, please call our contact centre team from Thursday onwards.

Our next council meeting takes place on Thursday 10 May 2018. Read the agenda and papers for the meeting.

You can follow the meeting live from our twitter account