Insight International

• Insight International – December 2022

  Thu 22nd December 2022 The PDA

  Having developed a significant international dimension to the work of the PDA for the benefit of members here in the UK, we are delighted to send you our very first ‘International Newsletter’ itemising the increasingly long and interesting list of developments. 

• How the Medicines to Ukraine campaign became an effort to also help reduce Anti-microbial Resistance

  Wed 21st December 2022 The PDA

  An individual is injured on the frontline in Ukraine, and they reach over to their emergency packs which contain pain relief such as morphine, and medical tools. They are then given primary care by either the police, or military and triaged to evacuation hubs. The infection risk is unknown, the chances of having an infected wound at this point is unlikely. Moreover, as this individual is transferred between the different points of care, the cleanliness of transport vehicles and hubs are also unknown.  

• PDA in Canadian Podcast interview

  Wed 21st December 2022 The PDA

  In most countries, community pharmacy is still evolving from the historic position where each pharmacy was owned and operated by a pharmacist. In these situations, the established pharmacy organisations are often those that concentrate on representing the interests of owners.  

• Why has PDA joined the International Pharmaceutical Federation? (FIP)

  Wed 21st December 2022 The PDA

  The PDA had already been a member of the European employee pharmacist organisation called EPhEU since 2011. It has become increasingly obvious that being able to collaborate and learn from pharmacy organisations from other parts of the world is a good thing for PDA members. 

• PDA helps to launch a pharmacist union in Poland

  Wed 21st December 2022 The PDA

  By Piotr Merks, General Secretary ZZPF, Pharmacists’ Union in Poland 

• 11th General Assembly of the European Association of Employed Pharmacists (EPhEU)

  Wed 21st December 2022 The PDA

  By Mark Pitt, Assistant General Secretary of the PDA Union  

• The wider global opportunity for pharmacist leadership in Humanitarian crises

  Wed 21st December 2022 The PDA

  By Mark Koziol, PDA Chairman and Secretary General of EPhEU  

• The Pizza is not working

  Wed 21st December 2022 The PDA

  Pharmacists in the United States have created a movement called the #Pizzaisnotworking.  

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