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PDA is represented at the STUC Youth Conference
Sun 3rd July 2022
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) held its Youth Conference in Clydebank on the 25 and 26 of June 2022. The PDA was able to send its first-ever delegates, Hammad Mukhtar and Megan Boyle, two pharmacy students from Strathclyde University, to the conference representing the PDA.
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PHARMACY ECO-SYSTEM: Appropriate decisions needed on skill mix and respective responsibilities of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
Sat 2nd July 2022
As plans for future skill mix in England’s community pharmacy are to be announced, the PDA is republishing their Pharmacy Technician’s Report.
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PDA responds to the GPhC’s consultation ‘Draft equality guidance for pharmacies’
Fri 1st July 2022
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) recently consulted on its ‘Draft equalities guidance for pharmacies.’ Whilst the PDA welcomed this consultation, it has a number of concerns around certain aspects of the consultation.
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PDA membership numbers continue to increase
Thu 30th June 2022
Even more pharmacists are joining the PDA and a report to the PDA Union annual meeting today confirmed numbers have reached a record level.
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PDA calls for urgent action from GPhC and PSNI to retain credibility of the online assessment examinations
Thu 30th June 2022
At the beginning of 2022, the BTL Group Ltd, which made approximately £10 million in profit last year, was appointed the new provider of the common registration assessment sittings on behalf of the General Pharmaceutical Society (GPhC) and the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
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Support for pharmacist independent prescribers seeking to expand their prescribing practice
Thu 30th June 2022
PDA members will know that the PDA has focused on the importance of competence since the increase in practice-based pharmacists started by the NHS England Clinical Pharmacists in General Practice pilot in 2016-17.
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Pharmacists and the certification of fit notes
Wed 29th June 2022
The PDA recently set out its position on the change to legislation allowing pharmacists to sign fit notes in an article on 16 June 2022. Subsequently, members working in general practice have queried whether they should start signing fit notes.
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Improving care and reducing variation of cardiovascular disease
Tue 28th June 2022
Primary care pharmacist in Glasgow and member of the PDA Union Scotland and Northern Ireland Regional Committee, Iain Speirits has a split role working as a general practice pharmacist and in cardiology, supporting heart failure and post-MI patients. Here, Iain describes his role and the steps he takes to improve care and reduce variation in an area with the highest cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rate in the United Kingdom.
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PDA responds to the Department of Health and Social Care consultation ‘Hub and spoke dispensing’
Tue 28th June 2022
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) recently consulted on its proposals for ‘Hub and spoke dispensing.’ This is the second attempt by the DHSC to consult on proposed changes to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 and The Medicines Act 1968 to facilitate hub and spoke dispensing between parties that belong to separate legal entities.
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PDA contributes to the STUC’s ‘Mon the Worker’s book launch
Sun 26th June 2022
On 15 June 2022, the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) launched a memorial book titled ‘Mon the worker’s. The author of the book Daniel Gray invited PDA National Officer for Scotland, Paul Flynn to be part of a panel of contributors to the book.