A reflective account is designed to encourage thought about how an individual meets the GPhC’s standards for pharmacy professionals in their pharmacy practice. The nine standards for pharmacy professionals (right) describe how safe and effective care is delivered. The revalidation framework embeds these standards to ensure they are being met in an individual’s practice.

Each year the GPhC will select the standard(s) that an individual’s reflective account should be based on as part of the revalidation process – up to three may be selected. The account can include all the selected standards, but as a minimum a pharmacy professional can focus on just one of them. The standards will be announced at the start of a person’s registration year.

 

The reflective account will need to include the following information to meet the recording criteria:

• A brief summary of the area of an individual’s work including the setting of his/her practice and main roles/responsibilities
• A brief description of people who use the service
• How the standards for pharmacy professionals selected by the GPhC have been met. This must include a focus on at least one of the selected standards and include real examples from practice
• As mentioned, a real example should be taken from current practice that shows how the selected standard(s) has/have been met. Ideally, more than one example should be given. The standards are inter-related, so with one example of practice, more than one standard may have been met.

 

The selected peer may be able to offer support with the reflective account and so a conversation about this at the peer discussion stage may be beneficial.