At the start of the training period, you and your tutor will sign a learning contract in which you commit to meeting your respective responsibilities as trainee and tutor.

Throughout the year, you are required to build up a portfolio of evidence for your tutor to assess, as well as demonstrating your competence when being observed at work.

Training year

Before you begin your training, you will receive a GPhC pre-registration manual. The manual provides an overview of pre-registration training and the GPhC requirements for the training year.

It sets out the performance standards against which your competencies will be measured during the training year. These performance standards describe what you must be able to do and how you must behave in order to gain entry to the GPhC register.

The manual also contains the syllabus for the registration assessment.

The 2012-2013 manual is now only available online:

http://www.pharmacyregulation.org/preregmanual

Last year's manual is available as a PDF file for reference:

2011-12 Pre-registration Manual [PDF 449 KB]

You may also wish to make use of our resource packs to support trainees working in one patient-centred sector visiting another:

CSE Resource pack for Community [PDF 145.66 KB]

Resource pack for Hospital [PDF 147.8 KB]

Training year communications

You will receive a number of communications from us. These will update you on any changes and help support you in your training.

It is essential that you read these updates. These include Pre-registration Bulletins, sample registration examination papers and a training record.

For the latest Pre-registration Bulletin see the links below. Please note that the advice in these bulletins supersede any previous advice:

Pre-registration Bulletin, Autumn 2011 [PDF 1.47 MB]

Pre-registration Bulletin, Spring 2012 [PDF 7.20MB]