At PL-UK we are passionate about making our locums happy with the service they receive from us. We invest a lot of time and money into making sure our service is first rate but no money at all in making sure that we are achieving our goal.
As a result, we have instigated a monthly locum happiness survey that will be sent to 10% of our active locums. The survey is very simple, consisting of only ten questions and if you do receive an email request to complete a survey, we’d be very grateful if you would spare 5 minute to do so.
The PL-UK team -
We are looking for a locum pharmacist and locum pharmacy technician for a part time vacancy in Uxbridge.
Hours of work will be 9am-1pm Monday to Friday.
CRB clearance preferable but can be arranged if you don’t have existing clearance. Experience working in a hospital or secure environment would be beneficial.
Call Linda on 01677 424215 for more details
N.B. Locum pharmacy technician needs to be registered as such with the GPhC
I’ve been contacted by the PSNC this morning. Apparently locum pharmacy technicians are unable to use their NHS smartcard in any other pharmacy than their “base” store. Pharmacist locums don’t have the same problem as their cards contain additional code that enables them to be used in any terminal.
As we move towards electronic prescription this will clearly become a major problem for locum pharmacy technicians and the PSNC are trying to get the DOH to add the additional code to locum technician’s cards beforehand.
If you have had problem like this please give me a ring as the PSNC would like a real “live” example of the problems caused by the lack of code so they can take these to the DOH.
PLease use the number at the top of the homepage to call
Shaun Hockey – Managing Director PL-UK
Really interesting article on PJ Online about the lack of communications causing a 200% increase in medication errors. I couldn’t agree more as I mentioned in a previous post http://www.pluk.co.uk/2010/pharmacist-access-to-medical-information/
Pharmacists need access to medical information to fulfil their potential as the healthcare providers on the high street and could make a masssive impact in terms of drug costs and effectiveness. To me it’s a no-brainer but until the government start contracting with professionals i.e. individual pharmacists and not shops it’ll never happen because GP’s don’t want supermarkets and multi-nationals to have access to their patient’s medical records
Link to PJ Online article below
We need more high quality locums to work for our clients in the North East of England. We have work available with multiples, independents, supermarkets and private health providers so if you live in an area where work is sparse, why not re-locate to the North East for the summer?
Call Linda or Lynne on 0800 8818844 for details
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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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