PSI Newsletter 2026

Read the updates and insights in our PSI Newsletter: Issue 1, 2026

• CPD changes- requirement for annual ePortfolio submission
• Electronic record-keeping in pharmacies update
• Pharmacy workforce reports published for 2025
• Pricing transparency requirements
• Safeguarding patient privacy and confidentiality in pharmacies
• Reminder about appropriate sourcing of medicinal products
• Fitness to Practise outcomes
• Updated joint PSI and Medical Council guidance on Safe Prescribing and Dispensing of Controlled Drugs
• Reminder about guidance on safe supply of methotrexate
• Updated information about professional indemnity insurance for pharmacies and pharmacists

Read PSI Newsletter: Issue 2, 2026

• Guidelines to support safe staffing published
• Pharmacy record-keeping update
• Annual ePortfolio Review and update to Exemption Policy 
• Pharmacists and social media
• Registration compliance - pharmacy trading name and requirement to notify pharmacy ownership changes
• PSI Annual Report and notice of elected PSI President and Vice-President
• Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) research project
• New to Practice Resource from IIOP
• Antimicrobial resistance update
• Bill to enable pharmacy contraception prescribing service
• Better Public Services Award
• Fitness to Practise matters