SITTING professional registration exams is stressful at the best of times, but the tension ratcheted up a couple of notches for aspiring pharmacists in the UK this week.
The British General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) confirmed that intern pharmacists who were scheduled to undertake their registration assessment on Wed faced significant delays, across five of the 113 test centres nationwide.
BBC News reported that candidates at the Nottingham test centre were forced to wait for several hours, due to "significant problems".
GPhC CEO, Duncan Rudkin, said the organisation had apologised to students affected by the delays.
"This is completely unacceptable, and we fully appreciate the significant stress and disruption this must have caused for them in such a high-stakes assessment," he said.
"We are advising the candidates in Nottingham that we will accept the severe delay as grounds for appeal if they do not pass."
Royal Pharmaceutical Society President, Professor Claire Anderson, described the delays as "appalling".
"It is not acceptable that foundation trainees were subjected to such traumatic and chaotic circumstances on what was already a stressful day," she said.
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