Pharmacy Liverpool John Moores University

Overview

This Pharmacy course at Liverpool John Moores University offers you the opportunity to develop as a key healthcare practitioner with an advanced understanding of the science-basis for practice, leading you to become an 'expert in medicines'. We place a strong emphasis on ensuring the development of knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours and values necessary for individuals to work in partnership with patients and other healthcare professionals in order to provide accessible, compassionate and integrated person-centred care with a focus on enhancing patient outcomes.

Career

The MPharm qualification is your first step towards qualification as a pharmacist in the UK.

When you graduate, you will need to undertake a Foundation Training Year in practice and be successful in a national registration assessment to register with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). Once you have demonstrated your practical competence, taken professional examinations and provided the GPhC with a statement of fitness to practice (and sometimes evidence of a Disclosure Barring Service check), you will be eligible to work in any branch of pharmacy.

The School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences has strong links with a number of leading hospitals and primary care providers, including the Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust (at the Royal and at Aintree), Broadgreen, Arrowe Park (Wirral), Countess of Chester, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Whiston Hospital, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (Mental Health) Trust, Merseycare and the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, and also with local GP medical centres and community pharmacies. This means you can be confident that you will have excellent training on placement and with teacher-practitioner pharmacists on campus during your studies.

A career in pharmacy has excellent prospects and salaries are very competitive. Most pharmacists work in hospitals, health centres and community pharmacies. There are also opportunities in the drugs development industry or in university-based research.