• Pharmacist Support receives a donation of almost £25,000 
• NAWP secures a future as part of the PDA
• PDAU donates £1,750 to Birmingham Mind
• PDAU proudly supports the Trade Union Clean Air Network Charter
• PDA responds to BEIS consultation on Neonatal Leave & Pay
• PDA National Conference: First session announced
• Latest News
• Great savings with PDA Plus additional member benefits

Pharmacist Support receives a donation of almost £25,000

PDA members have raised almost £3,500 over the last nine months by topping up their membership fees with donations to Pharmacist Support. Once added to nine months of the PDA’s donation of £1 for every member each year, a total of £24,896.68 was presented to the charity at the 2019 Pharmacy Show.

NAWP secures a future as part of the PDA

The National Association of Women Pharmacists (NAWP) has secured a future as a network within the PDA. NAWP will become a semi-autonomous network, open to both PDA members and non-members. The 114-year-old organisation had previously announced that the organisation was closed to new members and would dissolve as an independent body at the end of the year. The arrangement made public earlier this month means NAWP will now continue its work in a new format.

 PDA National Conference: First session announced

We reveal one of the sessions at the PDA National Conference 2020. In the session, ‘Pharmacists’ strike action – the inside story from Norway‘, Greta Torbergsen, General Secretary of the Norwegian Association of Pharmacists will describe how a dispute at Vitusapotek, the second largest community pharmacy multiple in Norway was settled just hours before strike action was about to proceed. Pharmacists had already begun the unprecedented process to commence a strike after the union rejected an initial inadequate pay offer.

In a demonstration of what a pharmacist union with recognition at an employer can achieve for its members, just twelve months earlier, the union successfully negotiated a reduction in working hours for pharmacists working at Boots in Norway. Greta Torbergsen was at the centre of both of these negotiations and will tell us how Norwegian pharmacists stand up for the profession.

18/10/19 – European Women Pharmacists meeting

16/10/19 – Results of survey of pharmacists about problems with medicines supply and the possible affects of Brexit

14/10/19 – PDA Union attends the 8th General Assembly of EPhEU

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