About us

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 for pharmacists for the benefit of pharmacists.

The primary aims of the PDA are to:

• Support pharmacists in their legal, practice and employment needs
• Represent the individual or collective concerns of pharmacists in the most appropriate manner
• Proactively seek to influence the professional, practice and employment agenda to support members
• Lead and support initiatives designed to improve the knowledge and skills of pharmacists in managing risk and safe practices, so improving patient care
• Work with like-minded organisations to further improve the membership benefits to individual pharmacists
• Work with insurance providers to arrange insurance cover to safeguard and defend the reputation of the individual pharmacist

• Why do we exist?

  The PDA is the only organisation solely looking after the interests of the individual hospital, community, primary care and locum pharmacist in an increasingly difficult, hostile and employer dominated environment.

• Aims and Objectives

  To support and protect your reputation as you practice in your profession and to improve the status and working environment of individual pharmacists, ultimately improving patient care.

• Affiliations

  The PDA is affiliated to several wider groups because, just as individuals achieve more by joining together as a Trade Union, we can achieve more by working together.

• Meet the team

  Our employed team of pharmacists, lawyers and other staff support our networks of representatives and help meet the needs of our members across the UK. Our head office is in Birmingham.