With 50 students planned for September 2025 entry, Bath’s pharmacy students join Plymouth’s wide range of healthcare students in focussed interprofessional learning sessions, enhancing their teamworking and preparedness for practice.
An additional option of a shared foundation year delivered by both universities provides opportunity to our regions’ students addressing key widening participation initiatives. This shared foundation year includes newly developed University of Bath modules and draws on existing University of Plymouth modules.
Pharmacists are on the national shortage occupation list and the South West has a particular shortage with the highest community pharmacy vacancy rate in England at 14% (8% nationally). The partnership is delivered in close collaboration with NHS England and local stakeholders.
Transformation and efficiency taskforce: towards a new era of collaboration
“This report, and the work which will follow it, represents a commitment to mutual accountability and to ambitious reform for a sustainable future which continues to deliver prosperity for communities across the UK.”
UUK are calling for a much greater focus on how universities across the UK can work together, share services and assets, and collaborate in the national interest. The report identifies seven opportunities open to the university sector, and the action needed from central Government to enable universities to drive such change.