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Sharing Smartcard access could result in instant dismissal
Sun 20th January 2019
The PDA would like to draw your attention to a recent Employment Tribunal where a practice manager had been immediately dismissed for allowing a pharmacist to use their smartcard to perform a bulk prescription process on the surgery IT system.
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Boots Pharmacists: Why recognise a trade union?
Sun 20th January 2019
Doctors have the BMA, Physiotherapists the CSP, Nurses the RCN, Midwives the RCM and so on across the sector. Since 2008, Pharmacists have had the PDA Union standing up for their rights too.
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Should Boots be proud of their pay practice?
Sat 19th January 2019
A senior company director recently said that Boots are “proud of [its] market-leading levels of pay for [its] pharmacy population.” So we want to explain what that pay system involves.
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Pharmacists call on Boots to allow maximum voting period in recognition ballot
Fri 18th January 2019
Pharmacists and pre-registration trainees are calling upon Boots to support an application by the PDA Union to request that ballot papers are posted out at the start of the ballot period, to help ensure as many pharmacists as possible can participate in the vote.
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Are the new Defences to criminal prosecution for dispensing errors effective?
Fri 18th January 2019
For years the threat of criminal prosecution for pharmacists who have made an inadvertent dispensing error has been a concern for all pharmacists.
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Lloyds Pharmacy’s parent company has acquired Prescribing Support Services
Tue 15th January 2019
If you are working for Prescribing Support Services you may be subject to organisational or employment changes. Please let us know if you have any issues or concerns.
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Health Education England cuts funding for hospital trainee pharmacists (called pre-reg until end of summer 2021) in England
Fri 11th January 2019
Health Education England has announced a decision to cut funding for hospital trainee pharmacists (called pre-reg until end of summer 2021) placements by up to 25% from 2020 onward.
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Whatever their Brexit view, pharmacists have no control of supply
Fri 11th January 2019
It’s a shame it’s taken a national crisis to recognise pharmacists should be given greater powers to make decisions in patients' interests, says Claire Ward...
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Boots senior management adopt anti-union tactics to try and defeat the vote
Thu 10th January 2019
In the forthcoming recognition ballot, Boots pharmacists have the opportunity to secure an independent voice at work. In preparation, the PDA Union spoke to employment relation experts to understand what pharmacists could expect if an employer wanted to deny its workers independent union representation.
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Department of Health and Social Care publish NHS Long Term Plan
Thu 10th January 2019
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) published its 10-year plan on 7 January 2019, some months after the original planned release date in autumn 2018.