The PDA’s supplementary evidence explores issues of importance to pharmacists such as the workforce, the introduction of the Pharmacy First Service, the recent pharmacy supervision consultation, and more.
With regards to issues surrounding the workforce, the PDA has given evidence of matters that pharmacists have reported about their lived experiences in the workplace that impact their health and well-being. These issues include chronic understaffing, sub-standard working environments, an absence of a protected training time, and experiences of racism, violence and abuse.
The PDA’s supplementary evidence then goes on to discuss the introduction of the Pharmacy First Service. The evidence states that although in general, PDA members working in England welcome the development of services such as the Pharmacy First Service, they have also raised significant concerns about the timescales and methods of implementation of the service.
The evidence also expresses how the PDA believes that the proposals around supervision legislation recently under consultation by the Department of Health and Social Care need to be very carefully considered to ensure that the workforce and skill mix are appropriately enabled.
The supplementary evidence also highlights a small number of emerging but highly significant matters of relevance to the inquiry. These matters have been covered in the written evidence as there was not sufficient time to cover the issues when giving oral evidence.
Read the PDA’s supplementary evidence below:
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