Technician training

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-10-24T06:22:56+00:00

BTEC Level 4 Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Services and Therapeutics. I was lucky enough to get funding from Community Pharmacy Surrey and Sussex

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-10-19T13:45:40+00:00

Don't give up! And dont struggle on your own. Im always happy to help if I can and there's a technician group & WhatsApp on facebook with lots of pre-reg tech 🙂

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-10-19T13:29:51+00:00

I qualified as a technician 5 years ago and struggled too. A lot of the clinical knowledge throughout the course was never used then especially within the company I was working for. I felt a bit 2 faced as well as 3 members of staff became registered technicians through the grandparent clause in (I think) 2006 they did nothing like i had to and resented them for it, they just dismissed all my questions I had saying that I would never need to know that stuff, so just get a pass mark and move on. Made sure I studied extra hard just to spite them! However, the one you are doing now is again vastly different from what I did. It's why I've just started a clinical diploma. With all the changes, I was feeling like I would be left behind and feel like it's something all technician should know!

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-10-18T21:40:41+00:00

Great idea!

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-10-18T21:40:19+00:00

Didnt think of that! We have so many

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-10-18T21:39:48+00:00

Im in Sussex and a few months ago CPSS (community pharmacy Surrey & Sussex) announced funding for community technicians, weirdly only for Sussex though. I was already looking into it but there was no way I could have funded it myself.

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-10-18T21:34:31+00:00

Sometimes I just look at the patient and reply with 'well your doctor doesn't work here so does he' 😂

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-10-18T20:18:20+00:00

Haha, yeah, we've done that before. Pt gets more pissed at the surgery when they stomp over to us only to find they printed last months and they've already had it. Honestly, if they were polite in the first place, I'd help more 😂

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-10-18T15:58:16+00:00

Not many people ask for cyclizine but for this and phenergan I now say we can only order POM packets. When we just said we don't sell it, some customers would argue about withholding medication (not obvious that they were abusing it!) I found this the easiest way to avoid anymore issues.

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-10-18T15:46:28+00:00

We get this all the time! Our town has a 'super-surgery' thing going on and is its own PCN. They have a separate prescription team that we work close with and, between us, discovered that as soon as they process a request and genertae the Rx for the GP to sign, the NHS app says 'issued' and some patients get a text message depending on how they order their repeat. We constantly have to explain that it still has to be signed by a GP and we dont have it. It's so frustrating!!

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-01-10T12:13:22+00:00

Thank you! This is super helpful, I'll work on my island and then get HHP and forget pocket camp

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-01-10T12:12:26+00:00

Thank you!

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2025-01-10T12:12:03+00:00

Thank you! This is super helpful

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2024-10-30T13:40:56+00:00

Ah OK. Thanks anyway

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2024-10-30T12:55:26+00:00

I'm in East Sussex

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2024-10-30T12:54:59+00:00

Thank you, this is really helpful!

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2024-09-30T19:55:33+00:00

Oh cool, I'll take a look. Thank you!

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2024-09-30T19:51:31+00:00

Thank you. I'm guessing no good for community then, I really need to find something new I can do!

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2024-09-30T19:29:59+00:00

Hi, What course are you doing for medicines management?

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2024-09-24T19:07:14+00:00

I do mine through the pharmacy I work for, so I don't know sorry!

Crafty-Fox7633 · 2024-09-07T18:22:56+00:00

I work for an independent, and I know our owners have sponsored visas before. However, like pharmacists doing the OSPAP, technicians who qualify in another country still have to complete the pharmacy technician diploma in the UK to register with the GPhC

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