Sector celebrates first 'excellent' rating but maintains inspection regime is unfair
Just one top-rated premises in a year shows GPhC inspections are 'flawed', say pharmacists
C+D readers have praised a Sheffield pharmacy for achieving the General Pharmaceutical Council's (GPhC) first ‘excellent' rating but criticised the regulator for so rarely awarding this classification. Although pharmacists agreed Wicker Pharmacy deserved its premises rating – announced last month - they labelled the GPhC's new inspection regime "flawed" for only conferring the highest classification once since it was launched in November 2013. The GPhC told C+D that its ratings were "only indicative at this stage", which was why it had not published inspection reports.
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