The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) is a not-for-profit organisation which aims to act upon and support the needs of individual pharmacists and, when necessary, defend their reputation. We are an organisation that is run by pharmacists for the benefit of pharmacists.
The primary objectives of the PDA are:
- to advance and protect good health by promoting proper standards and best practice in pharmacy;
- to support the safe and effective practice of pharmacists at every stage of their education and career;
- to provide leadership and representation for employed and self-employed pharmacists, and those in training;
- to protect, defend, lobby for and support the interests and reputations of pharmacists;
- to work with and support local, national and international organisations with similar objectives; and
- to facilitate professional indemnity insurance, arrange benefits and undertake any other activities that can support our wider objectives.
Though the PDA is now an established major stakeholder in the pharmacy eco-system, many people do not fully realise what it does or has done. To learn the story this history timeline details some of the highlights and significant events that have shaped the PDA.
Click on image to open the History of the PDA
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If you have not yet joined the PDA, we encourage you to join today and ask your colleagues to do the same.
Membership is FREE to pharmacy students, trainee pharmacists and for the first three months of being newly qualified.
Read about our key member benefits here.