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Being a Primary Care Network pharmacist and what the PDA means to me
Tue 21st March 2023
Neera Goel, PDA Rep, PDA West and Wales Committee member, and Primary Care Network (PCN) pharmacist shares the obstacles they have faced in their role and the ways these obstacles were overcome. Neera also discusses what it means to them to be a PDA member and a PDA Rep.
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PDA Research Update
Tue 7th March 2023
In this PDA Research Update, we explore all of the recent investigating that we have done in hopes of advancing the interests of pharmacy, supporting pharmacists, and reducing risks to patients. In this update read about the results of the 2022 Safer Pharmacies Survey and how you can have your say on how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted healthcare workers' sentiment toward vaccination.
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PDA’s Safer Pharmacies Survey 2022
Tue 7th March 2023
Keeping patients safe is key to the role of every pharmacist, but less-than-safe working conditions risk harm to patients as well as damaging consequences for pharmacists, such as impacting on their physical or mental health.
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Pharmacists echo poor working conditions faced in NHS hospitals
Tue 7th March 2023
This is the story of every Trust up and down the country with NHS staff facing immense pressures which, hand in hand with staff shortages, is producing the perfect storm.
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Vaccinations data highlights the contribution of community pharmacy in Covid-19 campaign
Tue 7th March 2023
In February 2021, the PDA launched 'A Thousand Little Ships', a proposal to maximise the NHS mass vaccination capability when demand was expected to dramatically increases once the second doses began. Analysis of vaccination data shows the successful contribution that pharmacists working in communities have made.
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PDA members highlight pressures relating to medicines supply issues
Tue 7th March 2023
PDA members recently participated in a survey during the week before Christmas 2022 at the height of challenges around medicines availability, some of the PDA’s findings were featured in a recent Health Service Journal article about shortages.