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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.
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Morrisons pharmacists may be impacted by hours reduction
Fri 12th August 2022
The PDA will be supporting their members employed at Morrisons to deal with any potential impact from a reported decision to reduce the operating hours in 'a number' of the CCA member's 117 pharmacies later this year.
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PDA publishes innovative proposals around opportunities for post-Covid-19 pharmaceutical care
Fri 12th August 2022
A report by the PDA proposes a more integrated healthcare system that could enable pharmacists to provide effective and more efficient care to patients. This integrated system aligns with the PDA’s Wider Than Medicines initiative to better utilise the skills of pharmacists as experts in medicines and the provision of pharmaceutical care.
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Humza Yousaf must enable ‘special measures’ to protect patients from unnecessary pharmacy closures
Wed 10th August 2022
The PDA says that the Scottish Health Secretary 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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Attending London Pride 2022
Wed 10th August 2022
London Pride took place on 2 July 2022 and PDA LGBT+ Network member and second-year pharmacy student, Eva Martin (they/them) was in attendance. Here they share the theme of this year's London Pride and what it meant to them to attend. Also, learn more about the PDA LGBT+ Network's presence at Manchester Pride this year.