The last year has been an incredibly difficult year apprentices working in pharmacy, and yet pharmacy and apprentices across the country have pulled together and delivered outstanding support to patients, colleagues and their wider communities. Apprentices have shown great resilience and dedication, offering their time and ever-growing expertise to support the COVID response wherever they can, and in doing so shown that the future is in safe hands. Pharmacy apprentices working in the NHS, community and general practice are helping to #BuildTheFuture.

We are receiving a large number of enquiries about vaccination training for individuals hoping to administer the new Covid-19 vaccines. As guidance is being updated and developed frequently, please ensure that you access the most up to date information available.

Over the last few months there has been much discussion over the provision for pharmacy technicians to join the current healthcare professional workforce in administering Covid-19 and flu vaccines. The government consultation has been running over the last month and we expect the outcomes by the end of October 2020.

Over the last few weeks, the Pharmacist Support #ACTNow campaign has really promoted how important wellbeing is. Buttercups Training is incredibly proud partners of the Pharmacist Support #ACTNow campaign - #ACTNow:

Given the impact of COVID, we want to ensure that pharmacy benefits from government funding as much as possible.  Apprenticeship funding is available in England for the latest pre-registration pharmacy technician training programme, the Pharmacy Technician (Integrated) standard.