The Department of Health Professions (DHP) and the Commonwealth's 13 health regulatory boards – including the Virginia Board of Pharmacy - and the Board of Health Professions, license and regulate Virginia's 350,000 healthcare practitioners across 80 professions. Each board works "To ensure safe and competent patient care by licensing health professionals, enforcing standards of practice, and providing information to health care practitioners and the public."

Provides information for Pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, prescribers, facilities, and consumers including laws & regulations governing pharmacy, and the Board of Pharmacy’s newsletters & presentations. Provides Virginia Board of Pharmacy licensing applications and forms.

VPhA was founded in 1881 and has served for 135 years as the voice of the profession of pharmacy in the Commonwealth. The purpose of the Virginia Pharmacists Association is to assure the viability and vitality of the profession of pharmacy by advocating for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in legislative, regulatory and public affairs. The focus of advocacy shall be to maximize contributions of the profession to public health, and patient care and to increase public awareness of the value of pharmacy services. VPhA partners with the American Pharmacists Association to offer student membership through the Academy of Student Pharmacists organizations at all four schools and colleges in Virginia.

In order to make progress as a profession, there must be progress both legislatively and with board regulations. VSHP's political action committee (PAC) and VSHP's members have organized to update the laws of the state, and each year there is additional work with the General Assembly.
All four pharmacy programs in Virginia have SVSHP Chapters. Additionally all four SVSHP Chapters have been recognized as Student Societies of Health-system Pharmacy (SSHPs).