Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a hospital pharmacist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a hospital pharmacist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Hospital pharmacists prepare, dispense and provide medication to patients in hospitals. They collaborate with healthcare personnel such as doctors and nurses to treat patients and also offer advice and information on medications.

Professionals 52 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: specialist pharmacist, 50%

specialist pharmacist 50% covered pharmacist 50% covered pharmacy assistant 47% covered industrial pharmacist 45% covered pharmacy technician 44% covered hospital pharmacist You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from hospital pharmacist. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a hospital pharmacist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Index

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hospital pharmacist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a hospital pharmacist already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.