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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Internationally trained pharmacists in Great Britain: what do registration data tell us about their recruitment? | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Internationally trained pharmacists in Great Britain what do registration data tell us about their recruitment Ellen I Schafheutle and Karen Hassell Open Access Address Centre for Pharmacy Workforce Studies Workforce Academy School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences The University of Manchester Manchester UK Email Ellen I Schafheutle - Karen Hassell - Corresponding author Published 25 June 2009 Received I October 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 51 doi 1478-4491-7-51 Accepted 25 June 2009 This article is available from http content 7 I 5I 2009 Schafheutle and Hassell licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Internationally trained health professionals are an important part of the domestic workforce but little is known about pharmacists who come to work in Great Britain. Recent changes in the registration routes onto the Register of Pharmacists of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain may have affected entries from overseas reciprocal arrangements for pharmacists from Australia and New Zealand ended in June 2006 10 new states joined the European Union in 2004 and a further two in 2007 allowing straightforward registration. Aims The aims of the paper are to extend our knowledge about the extent to which Great Britain is relying on the contribution of internationally trained pharmacists and to explore their routes of entry and demographic characteristics and compare them to those of pharmacists trained in Great Britain. Methods The August 2007 Register of Pharmacists provided the main data for analysis. Register extracts .