Pharmacy GPhC Initial Education and Training reforms for 2025-26 - Communications Page

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Written By Adam Osprey

Published: 06/02/25

Laptop displaying a webpage on Pharmacy Foundation Training Year (FTY) and GPhC training reforms.

NES Pharmacy are pleased to announce that they have updated their Pharmacy GPhC Initial Education and Training reforms for 2025-26 - Communications page on TURAS to better inform you of the changes to and requirements for Foundation Training Year 2025/26. Whilst there are some sections still under development this is a really useful site to help answer some of your questions and also to log any that you may have using our NES FTY 2025/26 questions form.

 
 
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