If I was still a Council member of @TheGPhC what would my view be to the executive on the #provreg issue?

@rpharms @BPSA @BPCollective_ @UKBPA1

The key decision was to postpone the exam. Once this occurred the logical next question was one of registration - within the context of the first wave of Covid a decision was made to allow provisional registration.
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The new #provreg pharmacists were allowed to be the Responsible Pharmacists - they assumed the full responsibility and accountability of a pharmacist

Ideally the exam should have then been conducted (online) within weeks of the original date

This has not happened. Now that #provreg have been working as pharmacists for many months it seems to me that the case for a exam for entry to the register is the weakest it has ever been

The model of pass the exam to get on the register has already been flipped for this cohort. From here the only fair way forward is to apply a default of transition to full register unless there are FtP or competence issues raised by tutors, employers, peers, public

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any individuals so identified to the regulator should then have the prospect of passing (a future) exam to retain registration

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Future cohorts should have the new online exam when that is ready. We now have a year to get it ready.

In a pandemic exceptional decisions have had to be made. It is unfair that #provregs have had months practising as pharmacists but must now pass an exam retrospectively

if they were a risk to the public, they should not have been #provreg

A balanced risk position would allow them to now continue and address individual concerns.

#provreg could be asked to provide more comprehensive revalidation and they are all reviewed for next 3 years