All activities undertaken by a newly qualified pharmacists whether employed or self employed in the normal course of their activities as long as the activity is one that would be deemed to be an acceptable one by the Law and Ethics Committee of the RPSGB.
Protection is also provided for :
Some pharmacists will actually be involved in helping to draft the local Patient Group Direction and they will be required to be co-signatories to such a PGD. The standard Newly Qualified scheme (PDAN) will not provide them with protection for this activity.
Primary care pharmacy work entails activities that are technically more demanding and requiring additional skills and training. Examples may include drug information, formalised medication review services or the operation of clinics. If the newly-qualified pharmacist is providing these services in a hospital pharmacy setting then the standard newly-qualified scheme will provide cover. However, if these services are undertaken by a newly-qualified in a community pharmacy or a GP's surgery, then a whole new level of potential liability risk is incurred. Protection for newly-qualified pharmacists involved in providing these more specialist services in community pharmacies, GP surgeries or other such locations will only be provided if they take out the much more comprehensive (PDAC) Pharmacist Consultant scheme instead of the (PDAN) newly-qualified pharmacist scheme.
Participation in pharmacist prescribing is not covered, this cover will only be provided by the Primary Care scheme.