Pharmacy careers

Does a MPharm limit you to community, hospital, and industrial pharmacy? Is it possible to go into the civil service or banking, like someone with a business or politics degree? If so, do you know of anyone who followed that career route after their pre-registration?

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Kingspharm

Not personally but I've read that there is someone who works for a government department and they are a registered pharmacist - I believe they are actually an MP, you might be able to find out his name if you Google.

If you have a decent degree classification from a decent university then you'll have a pretty good masters degree that you can do almost anything with - you certainly won't be limited to being a pharmacist, you can retrain to do anything. The benefit of it is that you will still be a registered pharmacist as a backup route to make £££ if you get stuck for work.

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Kingspharm

Found it although the article is a little out of date (was sure I had read it somewhere!) - http://www.pharmj.com/Editorial/20000122/articles/careers_civilservice.html

Steven Collins, was a parliamentary private secretary. There's a bit of information on pharmacy and non-pharmacy (but linked) careers at http://www.pharmj.com/noticeboard/series/careers/index.html

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