The PDA first published ‘Wider than Medicines – a pharmacy perspective on creating an integrated health system’ in 2018 and will continue to develop a roadmap for the future of pharmacy post pandemic.
In the past, much of our knowledge and skills were under-utilised, so the recent trend towards more clinical involvement is not only overdue but welcomed by many. The new Initial Education and Training Standards published by the GPhC will include Independent Prescribing (IP) from day one of the MPharm course, which means future pharmacists will join the register with IP skills.
The important contribution that pharmacists and pharmacy can make to the healthcare sector, by putting patients at the heart of what we do, has been demonstrated by the profession’s outstanding response to the pandemic and now our contributions to the vaccine programme. It also highlights our professional ability to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
From the start, the PDA has been there for all of us, supporting the needs of individual pharmacists, pharmacy students, pre-regs and those provisionally registered. The PDA developed the only independent trade union for pharmacists and were the first organisations to raise the issues of BAME pharmacists in relation to the pandemic; quickly producing a workplace risk assessment toolkit for pharmacy. One just has to look at the resources available to us, including the new indemnity cover for those who are involved in the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, to know that they support us on so many levels.
Every pharmacist should be a member of the PDA as no other organisation represents us so comprehensively.
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