Training and placements
Understand what good training should look like, what to ask for and how to get more structure from your placement.
For UK pharmacy technicians and trainees
Support, clarity and practical guidance for every stage of your career.
Pharmacy Technician Hub is being built as a trusted place to help you train, qualify, grow in confidence and progress within an evolving profession.
Built from real experience across community, GP and hospital pharmacy.
Start where you are
Find support for the stage you are in now.
You should not have to depend on luck to find good support or piece together your development from scattered sources.
Newly qualified
Build confidence in practice, understand your responsibilities and develop strong professional foundations.
Sector support
Practical help for technicians working in community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy and general practice.
Career progression
Explore the expanding opportunities available across pharmacy, including specialist roles, education and leadership.
An evolving profession
Registration is the beginning, not the finish line.
Pharmacy technician roles continue to grow across community services, hospitals, general practice, primary care, medicines optimisation, education, digital services and leadership.
The Hub will help technicians understand those opportunities, build the right foundations and take their next step with confidence.
“This is only the beginning of your career. Keep an open mind.”
Featured resources
Useful answers to real questions.
Start with practical resources created around the problems trainees and technicians face at work.
Medicines reconciliation explained
A practical introduction to information gathering, discrepancies, documentation and escalation.
Read resource →What is medicines optimisation?
An introduction to the role, patient safety, essential skills and career opportunities.
Read resource →How to become a pharmacy technician
A clear guide to training, registration and career opportunities in the UK.
Read complete guide →Professional Practice Journal
A practical journal for learning, reflection, confidence and patient safety.
View and download →Your first day in pharmacy
What to expect, what to ask and how to protect your confidence when the day lacks structure.
Read resource →Your first week
How to manage information overload, small wins and the feeling that everyone else knows more than you.
Read resource →What makes a good placement?
Clear expectations for induction, supervision, feedback and meaningful learning.
Read resource →Why the Hub exists
No technician should feel like they are figuring it out alone.
Pharmacy Technician Hub is being created to provide support, clarity, structure and practical tips throughout a technician's career. The aim is simple: to build a professional, trusted and genuinely useful home for the pharmacy technician community.
Be there from the beginning
Join the early-access list.
Receive launch updates and the first practical resources when they are released.