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	<description>The latest news from the Pharmacists' Defence Association</description>
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				<title>Supermarkets; pharmacist fights for professional autonomy.</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=889</link>
				<description>In a recent case the PDA Union represented a member who was threatened with disciplinary action by a Supermarket Manager when she refused to release staff to serve on the check-out.</description>
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				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2008-07-23T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Wed, 23 July 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>PDA By-election results announced</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=869</link>
				<description>The PDA Scutineers declare that all nominees who recently put themselves up for election on to the PDA Union Memebrship Groups, have been elected unopposed</description>
				<category>Public</category>
				<source url="http://www.the-pda.org/">The PDA</source>
				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2008-07-21T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Mon, 21 July 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Pressure to Perform MURs</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=829</link>
				<description>The PDA is aware of increasing pressures being placed upon its members to undertake a certain numbers of MURs </description>
				<category>Public</category>
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				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2008-05-16T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Late Night Pharmacies - Health & Safety Issues</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=830</link>
				<description>The PDA has recently become aware that some employers are no longer ensuring that it is company policy to have security guards working until midnight in those branches that have late opening.</description>
				<category>Public</category>
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				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2008-05-16T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>PDA members standing in RPSGB elections</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=790</link>
				<description>In the wake of large pharmacy organisations putting forward their candidates for Council election, Mark Koziol urges pharmacists to vote for pharmacists who have a perspective from the individual as opposed to the organisations perspective.</description>
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				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2008-04-17T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 April 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>The PDA response to the Clarke Inquiry</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=769</link>
				<description>Read the PDA's response to the Clarke Inquiry on the future of the RPSGB</description>
				<category>Public</category>
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				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2008-01-31T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Thu, 31 January 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>The Responsible Pharmacist - The PDA responds</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=770</link>
				<description>The PDA's response to a consultation on proposals for the content of the Responsible Pharmacist Regulations.</description>
				<category>Public</category>
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				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2008-01-22T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Tue, 22 January 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Contribute to the RPSGB's Questionnaire on 'Remote Supervision' by 29th June - urges PDA.</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=689</link>
				<description>PDA urges its Members  not to miss the opportunity to  contribute to the RPSGB's survey on 'Remote Supervision'.</description>
				<category>Public</category>
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				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2007-06-19T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Tue, 19 June 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Remote Supervision</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=587</link>
				<description>Concerns about Health Act proposal to allow a pharmacy to routinely operate in the absence of a pharmacist</description>
				<category>Public</category>
				<source url="http://www.the-pda.org/">The PDA</source>
				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2006-01-12T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Thu, 12 January 2006 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>PDA launches hospital pharmacist membership</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=525</link>
				<description>The PDA has gone from strength to strength since it was founded in 2003. However, until now, membership of the PDA was  available predominantly to pharmacists in the community and primary care sectors. The PDA announced today that it was now opening up membership to all hospital pharmacists</description>
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				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2005-09-23T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 September 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Locum awarded holiday pay</title>
				<link>http://www.the-pda.org/newsviews/nv_topical_news1.html?id=506</link>
				<description>A locum pharmacist who worked at the same pharmacy for six years had his services ended suddenly.  </description>
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				<dc:creator>The PDA</dc:creator>
				<dc:date>2005-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
				<pubDate>Tue, 26 July 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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