Pharmacist apprenticeship timeline

April 2019: Proposals for a level 7 apprenticeship – equivalent to a master’s degree, where pharmacists would train as apprentices on placements hosted by pharmacy companies – first emerged.

May 2019: Work on plans for this apprenticeship – which were backed by pharmacy employers such as Well and Lloydspharmacy – was paused for the first time.

October 2019: Work resumed a few months later before being paused again in December, when the employer group said more work was needed to “address some of the misconceptions about degree apprenticeships and their relationship to regulated occupations”.

March 2020: Although the employer group met again in 2020, talks ground to a halt again due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

June 2021: The group reconvened to prepare a second draft and public consultation.

Pharmacist apprenticeship talks ‘paused not shelved’ after ‘incredibly long delay’

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