The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) will consult on raising its registration its registration fees for 2019/20 – the first time it has proposed increasing them since 2015 – it has announced.
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The regulator is proposing that pharmacists’ fees should raise by £7 to £257, pharmacy technicians’ fees should raise by £3 to £121 and pharmacy premises fees should raise by £21 to £262.
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The proposed fees are still lower than 2011’s fees, the GPhC highlighted.
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The proposed fees would make the fee for registered pharmacies higher than the fee for pharmacists for the first time, it added.
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