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Show your support for the PDA and the profession’s independent charity
Thu 18th August 2022
The PDA has introduced the option for members to purchase PDA branded items, enabling them to celebrate their membership while also generating donations for the PDA’s charity partners Pharmacist Support, the profession's independent charity.
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Community Pharmacy closures: Employed pharmacist offered to work, but employer chose to close.
Wed 17th August 2022
In a further example of unnecessary community pharmacy closures, a pharmacist employed by a major chain anonymously recalls how their employer chose to decline their offer to cover the shift and decided to close that store for a day instead.
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Revision programme for those sitting the November 2022 assessment
Wed 17th August 2022
As part of the PDA's continued commitment to support trainee pharmacists, the PDA is offering an additional revision programme to help trainees prepare for their assessment.
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PDA refer NHS England to Information Commissioner over failure to share data on community pharmacy closures
Tue 16th August 2022
NHS England and Improvement has not been forthcoming with information requested under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws about Community Pharmacy closures, resulting in the PDA asking the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to investigate.
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Data shows largest multiples close more than fifteen times more often than other owners
Tue 16th August 2022
Data provided in response to Freedom of Information requests in Scotland shows that the largest pharmacy businesses closed branches for full or part days at more than 15 times the rate of other community pharmacies.
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Robin Swann must enable ‘special measures’ to protect patients from unnecessary pharmacy closures
Tue 16th August 2022
The PDA says that the Minister of Health must now ensure the regulation of poor business behaviours and be prepared to take over rogue pharmacies, however large their corporate owner may be. If patients’ access to NHS services is to be protected from the consequences of avoidable full or part-day pharmacy closures.
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Steve Barclay must enable ‘special measures’ to protect patients from unnecessary pharmacy closures
Tue 16th August 2022
The PDA says that the Health & Social Care Secretary now ensure the regulation of poor business behaviours and be prepared to take over rogue pharmacies, however large their corporate owner may be. If patients’ access to NHS services is to be protected from the consequences of avoidable full or part-day pharmacy closures.
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Eluned Morgan must enable ‘special measures’ to protect patients from unnecessary pharmacy closures
Tue 16th August 2022
The PDA says that the Minister for Health and Social Services must now ensure the regulation of poor business behaviours and be prepared to take over rogue pharmacies, however large their corporate owner may be. If patients’ access to NHS services is to be protected from the consequences of avoidable full or part-day pharmacy closures.
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Struggles faced by locum pharmacists in Scotland
Mon 15th August 2022
With some Scottish health boards recently approving pharmacy closures on Saturdays, a PDA member discusses the struggles of working as a locum pharmacist, and how this is expected to only worsen.
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PDA Union members working in the NHS in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland reject the NHS pay award
Sat 13th August 2022
The result of a recent PDA survey for members employed on Agenda for Change terms in the NHS show a majority of pharmacists reject the pay award.