GPhC Record Keeping and Pharmacy Duties

Use this page for General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) source-layer evidence about pharmacy record keeping, consent, confidentiality, prescribing, and person-centred pharmacy services.

Source-Layer Position

GPhC evidence supports the professional-duty layer for pharmacy professionals. It is particularly relevant where pharmacy workflows create records, prescribe, change medicines, provide clinical services, or write back to general practice through routes such as GP Connect Update Record.

What It Supports

Area	Supported record evidence
Person-centred pharmacy care	Patient needs, preferences, communication, consent, and service decisions.
Medicines and prescribing	Prescribing rationale, medicine supplied or changed, safety considerations, and review.
Confidentiality	Professional handling of confidential information in pharmacy contexts.
Record use	Making and using records of care as part of safe pharmacy practice.

What It Does Not Prove

GPhC evidence does not prove GP Connect supplier assurance, Update Record deployment, DSIC compliance, local pharmacy-service commissioning, or system configuration.

Deployment Evidence Needed

For pharmacy digital workflows, pair GPhC duties with service specification, prescribing authority, consent model, write-back route, GP Connect or other national-service onboarding, data-sharing agreement, audit, safety case, and pharmacy governance evidence.