Archive for June, 2009

Ever get the feeling you might be working in the wrong place? Well if you are a female pharmacist, you might be. A recent survey looking at the return of women to the workforce found that the best paid job for women in the USA is Pharmacist, with women pharmacists earning $86,000 per annum on average!

For more information click on the link below

Best paid jobs for women in the USA

There’s an interesting article on the Pulse website claiming that the DOH are planning to move more than 51 million appointments away from GP’s to community pharmacists.

Now that’s how you can fill up all your spare time!!

PULSE ARTICLE – CLICK HERE

We are desperately looking for experienced hospital locum pharmacists to fulfill bookings throughout the UK.

As the only agency specialising exclusively in the placement of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on to the NHS PASA list of approved agencies for 2009-2012, you can be assured a service that is second to none and hourly rates that will make you smile!

Call Shaun on 0800 8818844 during office hours or 07971187921 outside office hours.

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Like most of you, I’ve been keeping up to date with the Michael Jackson story over the weekend. In the 80’s he really was head and shoulders above everyone else and that’s what made his subsequent life so sad.

However, from a pharmacy point of view, early reports would seem to to indicate that his death was caused by a similar cocktail of drugs that led to the deaths of Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith.

Sky News article on Michael Jackson – click here

It amazes me that these stars end up on such a concoction of painkillers and anxiolytics after all, who looks after these people?  Multiple Doctors and a posse of sycophants is probably the reason

A good MUR would sort them out…. any takers?

Registration is fast approaching for all the hard working pre-reg pharmacy students. As in previous years, we are asking our existing locum pharmacists to recommend pre-reg students they have worked with who they think will make good locums in the future. The criterae we look for are:

• Clinically competent
• Good interpersonal skills with staff and patients
• Confident
• Trustworthy