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Individual Coaching Support available via #LookingAfterYouToo
Wed 3rd March 2021
In recognition that colleagues involved in the delivery of frontline NHS services, both clinical and non-clinical, are facing unprecedented challenges through Covid-19, NHS England and Improvement (NHS E & I) is offering those who work in primary care, including community pharmacy, individual coaching support.
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Urgent action needed by GPhC to retain credibility of online registration assessment
Mon 1st March 2021
The latest issues with the first online registration assessment have left many of the population of exam candidates with little or no confidence in the arrangements and wondering what else may go wrong between now and receiving their results.
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Withdrawal and Nullification- Sitting the registration assessment in March 2021
Wed 24th February 2021
With the assessment fast approaching (17 & 18 March), the PDA is aware that some members may find themselves in situations that will have an adverse impact on their performance.
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PDA Covid-19 vaccination portal helped over 1100 locum pharmacists
Tue 23rd February 2021
The PDA were concerned that some locum pharmacists could have been missed from the population of frontline health professionals to be allocated a Covid-19 vaccination, and therefore agreed with NHS England that we would develop a web portal to capture the details of locums that needed vaccinations.
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PDA welcomes discussion on facts for the BAME community around Covid-19 vaccinations
Fri 19th February 2021
Later in the same week that the PDA launched our #getvaccinated campaign for pharmacists, the British Asian Trust hosted a seminar to discuss the Covid-19 vaccination programme and facts for the BAME community, attended by a PDA representative.
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PDA zero tolerance of abuse in pharmacies posters
Wed 17th February 2021
The PDA has released posters emphasising zero tolerance of abuse in pharmacies which it encourages all members to print and display in their pharmacy. The awareness of this policy is key if patient behaviour is to be influenced.
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PDA encourages pharmacists and patients within the community to #GetVaccinated
Wed 17th February 2021
The PDA has today launched a new campaign that is calling on all pharmacists to have the COVID-19 vaccine and to help encourage their patients, family and friends, especially those in the BAME community, to do the same.
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PDA responds to media reports that McKesson plan to sell LloydsPharmacy
Tue 16th February 2021
The PDA is responding to media reports that McKesson intend to sell their LloydsPharmacy business and is reassuring members that the union will be doing all it can to protect their employment should this be accurate and their employment be affected.
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Only a trade union can enable pharmacists to negotiate at work
Fri 12th February 2021
In “HeartUnions Week”, the PDA Union is highlighting the way it is enabling pharmacists across the UK to improve their working lives by securing recognition to negotiate with the employer on their conditions of employment and to be consulted on significant change, on training and on health and safety issues.
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A pharmacy journey on hold: A member’s thoughts on being ineligible for provisional registration
Thu 11th February 2021
In our latest member voice article, a PDA member who has chosen to remain anonymous, shares their experience of being in the cohort of pre-regs ineligible to become prov-regs. Here, they discuss their disappointment at the GPhC announcement, what it has been like balancing work with exam revision and why they became a PDA Rep to give the ‘forgotten cohort’ a voice.