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Individual Coaching Support available via #LookingAfterYouToo
Wed 3rd March 2021
In recognition that colleagues involved in the delivery of frontline NHS services, both clinical and non-clinical, are facing unprecedented challenges through Covid-19, NHS England and Improvement (NHS E & I) is offering those who work in primary care, including community pharmacy, individual coaching support.
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Urgent action needed by GPhC to retain credibility of online registration assessment
Mon 1st March 2021
The latest issues with the first online registration assessment have left many of the population of exam candidates with little or no confidence in the arrangements and wondering what else may go wrong between now and receiving their results.
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PDA reiterate call for everyone who works in pharmacy to be in a trade union
Fri 26th February 2021
In a week that two major pharmacy multiples have announced plans to cut other jobs, the PDAU has reiterated the call for everyone who is working to be in a trade union suitable for their role so that they can receive the support, protection and other benefits of being part of an independent trade union.
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NAWP calls on employers to publish gender pay gap reports
Wed 24th February 2021
The National Association of Women Pharmacists (NAWP) says gender equality should continue to be treated as important and that there is no need for good employers to delay publishing their 2019/20 gender pay gap report until the new October enforcement deadline.
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Withdrawal and Nullification- Sitting the registration assessment in March 2021
Wed 24th February 2021
With the assessment fast approaching (17 & 18 March), the PDA is aware that some members may find themselves in situations that will have an adverse impact on their performance.
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BAME Pharmacists’ Network – February 2021
Wed 24th February 2021
Welcome to the latest PDA BAME Pharmacists' Network Update. To date, the BAME committee boasts a membership of over 700, and our numbers continue to grow.
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PDA Covid-19 vaccination portal helped over 1100 locum pharmacists
Tue 23rd February 2021
The PDA were concerned that some locum pharmacists could have been missed from the population of frontline health professionals to be allocated a Covid-19 vaccination, and therefore agreed with NHS England that we would develop a web portal to capture the details of locums that needed vaccinations.
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Locum and employed pharmacists should check arrangements for them to receive up to £500 government payment in Scotland and Northern Ireland
Tue 23rd February 2021
Employers, in Northern Ireland and in Scotland, have been asked by their respective governments to provide information about how many eligible pharmacists, including locums, will receive up to £500 as a payment from government for their contribution in 2020 towards tackling the Covid pandemic.
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PDA welcomes discussion on facts for the BAME community around Covid-19 vaccinations
Fri 19th February 2021
Later in the same week that the PDA launched our #getvaccinated campaign for pharmacists, the British Asian Trust hosted a seminar to discuss the Covid-19 vaccination programme and facts for the BAME community, attended by a PDA representative.
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Morrisons u-turn on blocking Covid-19 payments to individual pharmacists
Fri 19th February 2021
Supermarket multiple reverses decision to block £500 payment from Scottish Government to its employees within hours of PDA raising the issue.