I’m sure all the site visitors are avid watchers of health related programmes on the TV but I’ve found Inside the Human Body on BBC1 at 9pm on Thursdays absolutely fantastic.
Link to last nights episode on iplayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011db8c/Inside_the_Human_Body_Building_Your_Brain/
It disappoints me sometimes when we talk to locum coordinators who want a locum for a gap. 
The disappointment is not because they have approached me to fill their requirement, it’s that they just want a locum i.e. anyone with a GPhC registration.
Locum pharmacists, like all professionals cover a normal distribution curve in terms of ability, attitude and professionalism. i.e. some a fantastic, some are rubbish and most sit somewhere in the middle.
At PL-UK we are confident that our locum pharmacists and locum pharmacy technicians are very much at the top-end of the normal distribution curve i.e. fantastic and as such we want locum coordinators to want a PL-UK locum, not just any locum. I guess our challenge is getting this message across.
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I had to smile this morning when I was driving to work. Radio 5 live were running as story about the RPS’s call in Scotland for pharmacists to become more involved with dose changes for methadone patients. I’m obviously in favour of this as the pharmacists is the one member of the healthcare team who sees the patient every day and is therefore best placed to take the lead in their treatment. It may also be the RPS’s first attempt at forwarding the pharmacists role in healthcare since thew 27th September split. Good news.
But the thing that made me smile was the reporters reaction to Spit Meth. 12 years ago, when I worked in Middlesbrough, addicts would regularly take their supervised dose, drink a cup of water and talk to their observer (all good practice) but still go outside, stick two fingers down their throat and sell the vomited fluid to the highest bidder. Gross then and gross now!
The reporter was obviously disgusted by the process, but come on, your years behind up north if this is only happening now! I guess it has always happened in Scotland, it’s just the BBC catching up.
Also, well done the new RPS!
Link to story now on BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11487404
Following the recent publicity surrounding Elizabeth Lee’s dispensary at a branch of Tesco Pharmacy, click on the link below to view an excellent BBC interview with pharmacist Raj Patel, explaining the pressure pharmacists and under on a day to day basis.
Agency Workers Regulations – how does it effect me?
The simple answer is it doesn’t. …. in most cases. For more expert guidance than I can supply as a pharmacist rather than a legal bod please click on the link below. http://www.pcg.org.uk/cms/documents/01109%20PCG%20A4%2020PP%20BROCHURE%20SINGLE%20PAGES.pdf
One in a lifetime opportunity – pharmacist required in Tonga
We have been approached by a not for profit pharmacy in the Kingdom of Tonga asking us to recruit a pharmacist to work at one of the health centres in the Kingdom. This opportunity will definately not come up again for if you fancy a complete change of scene and an opportunity to live on [...]
Just a quick post to remind all pharmacist that they need to renew their GPhC registration by the 31st October. So you still have a month to pay but if you are anything like me, if you don’t do it now, there’s a chance you’ll forget!
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