Special Features

• PDA represented at the Plaid Cymru Conference Dinner

  Mon 15th October 2018 The PDA

  PDA Executive Representative for Wales and West England, Richard Evans represented the PDA at the Plaid Cymru Conference Dinner on Friday 5th October in Cardigan, Wales.  

• Lessons on successful skill mix using technicians in the Dental Profession should be applied to pharmacy

  Wed 10th October 2018 The PDA

  The dental sector provides a good exemplar of how skill mix has been developed to support the work of the dentist, to widen the scope of the service and ultimately to improve the service to patients. Six types of dental technicians have been registered by the General Dental Council (GDC). 

• Boots Management Services Ltd: Discrimination and breach of contract

  Tue 2nd October 2018 The PDA

  1. BY CONSENT, having now heard the evidence today, the Respondent now admits that the Claimant was at the material time an employee for the purposes of her unfair dismissal claim pursuant to the provisions of the Employment Rights Act 1996. 2. The application to amend the discrimination based claim so as to include additionally a claim of direct discrimination by way of associated disability and within the provisions of section 13 of the Equality Act 2010 is granted.  

• CAC agree bargaining unit for PDA Union Recognition

  Mon 1st October 2018 PDA Union

  Following a hearing on Friday 28th September, the CAC has today issued its decision on which pharmacists will be eligible to vote in a ballot to decide whether they can negotiate their pay, hours and holiday through the PDA Union. The PDA Union will only be able to negotiate for better employment terms for this group of employees should they win the ballot. 

• PDA Union and Boots update

  Mon 24th September 2018 PDA Union

  Read the latest update on the PDA Unions’ campaign to secure an independent voice at work for pharmacists at Boots.  

• Bestway Panacea Holdings Limited: An unfair dismissal

  Fri 21st September 2018 The PDA

  A court heard how Bestway Panacea Holdings Limited unfairly dismissed a member of staff and treated them unfavourably because of something arising as a consequence of a disability. They also failed to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate said disability.  

• PDA report suggests action on grandparenting and educational standards of pharmacy technicians is required

  Thu 20th September 2018 The PDA

  The PDA have released the third chapter of their pharmacy technicians report which shows that although 73% of pharmacy technicians on the 2017 GPhC register were admitted through grandparenting arrangements, the GPhC does not hold records of what assessments were conducted by the RPSGB as to the suitability of the qualifications of individual pharmacy technicians during the grandparenting process. 

• PDA Union & Boots Update: ACAS talks end without agreement

  Tue 18th September 2018 PDA Union

  Two sets of talks facilitated by the government’s conciliation service, ACAS between high-street chemist Boots and the independent pharmacists’ trade union PDA Union have ended without agreement. Following a ballot of 7,000 pharmacists in June, in which 87% of voters favoured changes to the trade union arrangements for pharmacists at Boots, the PDA Union are now following a legal process to become the recognised independent voice of pharmacists at the company. 

• LLoyds Pharmacy Bonus Payments

  Fri 14th September 2018 PDA Union

  A number of PDA Union members at Lloyds Pharmacy are receiving advice from the union about the company's request that they "re-pay" the bonus payments which they were recently paid. 

• PDA release second chapter of Pharmacy Technicians Report

  Fri 7th September 2018 The PDA

  The PDA (Pharmacists’ Defence Association) have released the second chapter of a highly anticipated pharmacy technicians report that assesses the current roles and capabilities of pharmacy technicians in the UK.  

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