Member Networks

• LGBT+ Pharmacists’ Network Newsletter – June 2024

  Thu 6th June 2024 The PDA

  This update coincides with Pride Month which is celebrated as a way of raising awareness of issues affecting the LGBT+ community along with promoting acceptance and equality. Also, find out how to join the network at Manchester Pride!  

• Rainbow Reads! LGBTQ Books for Pride Month 2024

  Wed 5th June 2024 The PDA

  Guest writer David Wright (he/him) is Associate Library Director for User Experience at the University of Southampton. With a career that spans over 30 years and includes work in public, special and academic libraries, he describes himself as an elder of the LGBTQ community who is as passionate now about diversity and inclusion as he was when he first came out as a gay man in the early 1980s. Here he recommends some reading especially for the PDA LGBT+ Network. 

• It’s Time to Address Discrimination: Standing up for Sitting Down

  Wed 5th June 2024 The PDA

  Today the PDA Ability Network is launching its ‘Standing up for Sitting Down’ campaign against disability discrimination. The network is encouraging members to exercise their rights by calling on employers to make appropriate reasonable adjustments and will also work with members to create a culture where there is zero tolerance for discrimination. 

• Using healthcare data to improve the services and experiences of LGBT+ patients

  Tue 4th June 2024 The PDA

  In our latest member voice article, Community Pharmacist and Researcher, Charlotte Jones discusses the importance of monitoring LGBT+ identifiers to improve the services and experiences of LGBT+ patients. 

• Intersection Update – May 2024

  Thu 23rd May 2024 The PDA

  Intersection is the PDA's newsletter bringing together news from all four PDA Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Networks. We encourage all PDA members to get involved in the networks that are of interest to them. 

• NAWP attends the Women’s Health Professional Care and Best Practice London conference

  Thu 16th May 2024 The PDA

  Ayah Abbass, President of the PDA NAWP Network recently attended the Women's Health Professional Care and Best Practice London conference. Here she shares her experience and what she learnt from the sessions.  

• The journey to parenthood: how may I assist?

  Thu 16th May 2024 The PDA

  In this latest member voice article, Mona Sood explains how pharmacists can help people who are struggling with infertility. 

• Being LGBT+ and diagnosed with ASD

  Thu 16th May 2024 The PDA

  President of the PDA LGBT+ Network, Liam Volk has shared his personal experience of being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and how this has impacted his life as a person in the LGBT+ community. 

• PDA Ability Network releases initial findings from the disability discrimination survey

  Wed 17th April 2024 The PDA

  In February 2024, the PDA Ability Network launched its disability discrimination survey to establish the extent of discrimination faced in the workplace by pharmacists who are disabled or live with a long-term health condition. Initial findings show that there is a lot of work to be done to make workplaces more inclusive.  

• PDA NAWP Network’s International Women’s Day event: Women and Inclusion in Pharmacy

  Thu 4th April 2024 The PDA

  The PDA NAWP Network hosted its annual International Women's Day event on Friday 8 March. As this year’s theme for International Women’s Day was inclusion the event focused on women and inclusion in pharmacy and allowed those in attendance to share their personal stories of discrimination while experiencing breast and cervical cancer.  

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