NPA, CCA and IMP come together as Pharmnacy Voice.
Now we need the RPS and PDA to come together as Pharmacist Voice or even better British Pharmacist Association and/or Royal College of Pharmacy
http://www.pjonline.com/news/trade_organisations_launch_unified_voice_for_pharmacy
The PDA has been contacted by a number of our members who have been approached by Rowlands Pharmacy to sign a revised job description
Link to PDA advice below.
http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=2711
Just when things seem to be getting better for pharmacists the old chestnut of self- protection rears it’s head. Responding to ex- Secretary of health, Alan Milburn’s comments at the Pharmacy Show that Pharmacy needs to speak with one voice to achieve it’s potential we get this response via the C+D website
Wanting to show that pharmacy speaks with one voice comments from PSNC, NPA and RPS!!!!!!
In one article the problem for pharmacy is shown in stark contrast! All these bodies full of their own importance and why always the talk of pharmacy not pharmacists.
Politicians and the public couldn’t care less about pharmacy in the same way they couldn’t care less about joinery, recruitment, banking or any other profession or trade. What they do care about is people i.e. pharmacist, joiners bankers (OK, maybe not.) Politicians and the public care about flesh and blood, not bricks and mortar.
Please, for the sake of pharmacists like me, sort yourselves out. PSNC merge with the NPA, the CCA, the independent multiples group, the national association of pharmacies with the word Road in the title etc etc etc and speak about your business concerns.
The RPS merge with the PDA and speak for pharmacists, speak about how pharmacists can support doctors, nurses, opticians and social workers and we might, eventually fulfil our potential as health professionals because you know what, Alan Milburn was so right and we all know it!
The Coalition are having a bonfire of the Quango’s today. Can’t we have a quango of the representative bodies in the pharmacy profession? Just think how powerful a business lobby and a pharmacist lobby could be!
Message from the PDA
Further to our last email, voting has now commenced for the employee
representatives to be involved in the consultation process for Alliance
Boots employees in the Final Salary Pension Scheme.
The following PDA Union pharmacists are standing for election as
employee representatives and we urge all eligible employees to use their
vote.
- Elaine Chapman
- Ross Flavell
- Mervyn Hodkinson
- Howard Ainsworth
- John Sargeant
- Paul Newman
Any PDA member who is elected as an employee representative will be
eligible for additional independent training and support, including
access to employment lawyers specialising in community pharmacy issues.
Employee representatives can also opt to receive additional training to
become an accredited PDA trade union representative.
In addition to using your vote, I would like to remind you of the PDA
Conference taking place over the weekend of 27th/28th February, where a
special session has been added to specifically address the proposals by
Alliance Boots.
Details of the conference can be found via the link at the bottom of
this email.
Kind regards
John Murphy
General Secretary
PDA Union
Don’t forget to register for the Annual PDA Conference, ‘THE GOOD, THE
BAD AND THE UGLY!’ on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th February 2010. Visit
http://www.the-pda.org for further details
I have just cast my vote online for the English Pharmacy Board Elections. I have voted for those pharmacists who I believe will represent the interests of individual pharmacist and not those of ‘Big Pharma’ – let’s take the Society back for the individual pharmacist!!!
After all, the multiples have the CCA and pharmacy owners large and small have the NPA and PSNC.
Vive le pharmacist!
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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