探花视频 and Bath pharmacy collaboration features in Universities UK report

Towards a new era of collaboration
Bath Pharmacy students at the Plymouth
University of Bath 鈥 Gabriel Gilson
An award-winning partnership that addresses the urgent need for more pharmacists, nationally and in South West England is highlighted in a new report from Universities UK鈥檚 Transformation and Efficiency Taskforce.
The Universities of Bath and 探花视频鈥檚 collaboration to deliver a masters' programme in Pharmacy is a case study that demonstrates how institutions are exploring new, closer ways of working together.
Since September 2024, 26 students from Bath鈥檚 MPharm (Hons) Pharmacy course have been learning in new practice-based and clinical teaching spaces at the 探花视频鈥檚 city centre campus.

探花视频 is already home to more than 4,500 health and social care students, studying everything from medicine and dentistry, to nursing and physiotherapy.

Adding the pharmacy degree to the options available in 探花视频 means we now offer an even broader suite of pathways into careers that will make a tremendously positive difference to the health and wellbeing of people in our region and beyond.

John CurnowProfessor John Curnow
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Education and Student Experience

Bath Pharmacy students at the Plymouth University of Bath 鈥 Gabriel Gilson
With 50 students planned for September 2025 entry, Bath鈥檚 pharmacy students join 探花视频鈥檚 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鈥 students addressing key widening participation initiatives. This shared foundation year includes newly developed University of Bath modules and draws on existing 探花视频 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

Read the. The 鈥檚 chair, Sir Nigel Carrington says:
鈥淭his 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.鈥
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.