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Latest News
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PDA welcomes GPhC action plan to improve Fitness to Practise processes
Fri 21st February 2020
The PDA welcomes the action plan published by the GPhC to improve their handling of its fitness to practise processes after an audit conducted by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) identified that 4 out of 10 fitness to practise standards were not met.
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Latest statement from the Joint Consultative Committee at Boots
Thu 20th February 2020
The PDA Union and Boots have published the latest statement from their Joint Consultative Committee (JCC)
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Advice to pharmacy students as Lecturers take strike action
Thu 20th February 2020
The PDA has issued advice to pharmacy students who may face pickets lines and find that their lecturers and other course staff are not at work due to industrial action by members of the University & College Union. The university staff are in dispute with university employers over pensions, pay, equality, casualisation of contracts and workloads.
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PDA invite pharmacy owners to join the Safer Pharmacies Campaign
Wed 19th February 2020
The PDA is inviting pharmacy owners across the UK to join them in their campaign for safer pharmacies. The campaign was designed to focus on the important work of community pharmacists in keeping patients safe.
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PDA announce Regional Committee By-Election Results
Mon 10th February 2020
Your Regional Committee is made up of elected members, pharmacists like you, from different sectors of the profession who collectively and individually have responsibility for recruiting, engaging and representing members in their region.
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Revalidation
The PDA is keen to support our members to engage with the new revalidation requirements successfully...
The PDA (Pharmacists’ Defence Association)
The PDA is a not-for-profit organisation which supports the needs of individual pharmacists and pharmacy students and, when necessary, defends their reputation. We are the largest pharmacist membership organisation and the only trade union exclusively for pharmacists in the UK.
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Latest Consultations
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PDA respond to NHS England consultation on draft Primary Care Network DES Service Specifications
Mon 27th January 2020
NHS England consulted from 23 December 2019 to 15 January 2020 on draft Primary Care Network DES (Direct Enhanced Service) Specifications.
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PDA responds to BEIS Flexible working and family-related leave and pay consultation
Thu 14th November 2019
The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has consulted on ways to encourage employers to be more transparent about their approach to flexible working and to parental leave policies.
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PDA responds to the GPhC’s consultation on Education and Training Requirements for Pharmacy Support Staff
Fri 30th August 2019
The GPhC consulted from 5 July 2019 to 23 August 2019 on draft requirements for the education and training of pharmacy support staff.
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Latest Publications
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NAWP begins a new chapter as a network of the PDA
Tue 7th January 2020
The new year brings an exciting opportunity for you to join the relaunched National Association of Women Pharmacists (NAWP). We're delighted to say that the experience of NAWP standing up for women pharmacists is now combined with the resources and campaigning reach of the PDA.
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NAWP newsletter – December 2019
Sun 22nd December 2019
The December newsletter of the National Association of Women Pharmacists is now available for download from the PDA website
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Insight Online – November 2019
Fri 22nd November 2019
Welcome to the latest issue of Insight Online - the regular mailing that keeps you up-to-date on PDA news and events, as well as issues that may affect you at work.
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