A local pharmacy workforce group is aiming to quadruple the number of pharmacy trainees coming to work in Somerset by 2026, the local pharmaceutical committee has said. Speaking to The Pharmaceutical Journal on 16 August 2023, Michael Lennox, chief executive of Community Pharmacy Somerset, said the aim to increase the number of trainees locally was in response to “a recruitment crisis” facing all pharmacy sectors in the county. NHS England’s 2022 ‘Community pharmacy workforce survey’ (/article/news/pharmacist-vacancy-rates-double-in-one-year-incommunity- pharmacy) , published on 3 August 2023, showed that Somerset had the highest vacancy rate for community pharmacist roles in the country, with almost a third (32) of the 237 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions unfilled.
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