NHS Workforce, Training and Education (WT&E)
The Workforce, Training and Education (WT&E) directorate of NHS England (NHSE) ensures the NHS in England has a sufficient and inclusive workforce with the knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver compassionate high-quality health and care to the people it serves.
You can find a range of workforce offers and support on their main website.
NHS Long Term Workforce Plan
The long awaited NHS Long Term Workforce Plan maps out a strategy to recruit and retain many thousands more staff spanning 15 years.
The plan has specific measures to support and develop the pharmacy workforce, and has given specific consideration to community pharmacy in recognition of what it describes as the sector’s ‘unique circumstances’.
Read more HERE.
Recent pharmacy specific offers & information are listed below:
In December 2024 NHS England announced that multi-sector rotations during the 2026/27 Foundation Pharmacist Training Programme will not now be mandatory.
Multi-sector rotations involve at least 13 weeks of training in a different area of pharmacy practice to the one the trainee is based in. Following the publication of the General Pharmaceutical Council’s Standards for Initial Education and Training of Pharmacists (2021), NHS England mandated that multi-sector rotations would be required for all trainees starting in the 2026/27 training year.
However, mindful of the current pressures faced by pharmacy teams and the broader healthcare sector and to support pharmacy teams in continuing to deliver high quality training, NHS England has decided that mandatory rotations will be delayed and a phased approach will instead be implemented.
Read more about this in NHS England’s letter announcing the change
NHSE WT&E have published the Pharmacy Technician Workforce Development Programme document (Nov 2024).
The Pharmacy Technician Workforce Development Programme document aims to enhance the training, recruitment, retention, and professional development of pharmacy technicians in England to support the delivery of the NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan. Key goals include addressing workforce shortages, enabling healthcare reforms, and improving healthcare services across settings.
NHS England has funded the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) to offer further places on their Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) programme for pharmacy technicians.
Applications are now open with funded places available if you meet the criteria. This will be the last round of funded places available for this programme.
