Please find a link below to the advice released today by the PDA about Alliance Boots’s interpretation of the RP regulations.
http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=2691
So how does your salary, bonus and condition compare to your peers? The C+D and PDA have carried out a survey this year of over 2000 pharmacists.
Some of the interesting results include:
For more information click on the links below which will take you to the C+D website (Please note, the results are found in two sections therefore you will need to click on both links below)
I’d be really interested in your comments about the survey
Shaun
So Lloyds Pharmacy and Bupa have already have their interpretations of the RP regulations brought into question by the RPSGB (PJ Online article below)
http://www.pjonline.com/news/pda_claims_rp_rules_are_being_interpreted_unfairly
I guess that this was always going to happen with any new working practices but it will be interesting to see how the RPSGB respond. The problems have been highlighted by the PDA who suggest that the Society may have changed the RP guidelines in favour of the multiples. I hope that this was not done intentionally and that the multiples wouldn’t “place” people on the council to make sure their commercial interests are represented ahead of the professional interests of their employee pharmacists. Maybe I’m being niave to think they wouldn’t as their main objective is to maximise shareholder (or owner) return. Linking this to the recent European Court Ruling
http://www.pjonline.com/forum/pharmacy_ownership_0
The PDA have shown that they are acting in the interest of the individual pharmacist. Is this an example of how a leopard never changes it’s spots and that the new PLB will still put bricks-and-mortar pharmacies ahead of flesh-and-blood pharmacist as it always seems to have done. I hope it isn’t because if it is, why should i join it?
The RPSGB has issued further guidance on the RP regulations due to come into effect from October 1st.
http://www.rpsgb.org/pdfs/rprequirementsguid.pdf?dm_i=EQ,1Z85,1SSR5,6BFT,1
Please find below a call to action from Graeme Stafford to delay the implementation of RP regulations. I think Graeme raises a number of points which need to be answered before the regulations go live.
Shaun
Dear Shaun
Please sign the petition asking for the postponement of the Responsible Pharmacist regulations:-
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/postpone-the-rp-regulations.html
There are now less than 70 days until these regulations come into effect and will affect so many of us in our everyday professional lives.
If we are going to get them postponed we need to act quickly.
What seems so utterly wrong is that we will be made completely responsible without being granted any additional control over our working environments.
Will we suddenly be able to set staff and training budgets, choose which wholesaler to use, decide how we want to design and equip our dispensaries and write our own SOPs?
How many of us will be willing to risk our employment status by standing up to our employers?
Why is there no concept of Responsible Owners?
When the chips are down, when something goes wrong, when an error occurs, who do you think will suffer?
If you have any concerns at all about the RP regs., if you want the Council of the RPSGB to take up this cause, if you want the Department of Health to listen
then please sign the petition as soon as possible and ask as many colleagues as possible to do likewise.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/postpone-the-rp-regulations.html
Thank you, as always, for your continued support,
Graeme Stafford
http://apjonline.blogspot.com/
P.S. If you have already signed I thank you but please do whatever you can to get more of your friends and colleagues to do likewise.
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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