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Improving Equality at Boots
Wed 23rd January 2019
A key objective of the PDA Union is to tackle inequality at work and when we say that, we mean our constitution explicitly states that we exist to “promote equality for all and to eliminate all forms of harassment, prejudice and unfair discrimination…”
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Boots Ballot: An international perspective
Tue 22nd January 2019
We know that the senior management at Boots UK have spent 8 years preventing you from having your trade union, the PDA Union, legally recognised but have you ever wondered how Walgreen Boots Alliance (WBA) relate to pharmacist trade unions in other countries?
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PDA National Conference brings together renowned national and international speakers to help shape the future of pharmacy
Tue 22nd January 2019
The PDA has announced the dates of their National Conference, titled “Moving from Supply to Services: Managing the risks; Embracing the Opportunities’, which takes place at the Park Regis Hotel in Birmingham on 30th and 31st March 2019.
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Boots: How forced distribution can inhibit genuine performance management
Mon 21st January 2019
Pharmacists tell us the current pay and reward system in Boots is demoralising, unfair and opaque, and it must be changed.
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Sharing Smartcard access could result in instant dismissal
Sun 20th January 2019
The PDA would like to draw your attention to a recent Employment Tribunal where a practice manager had been immediately dismissed for allowing a pharmacist to use their smartcard to perform a bulk prescription process on the surgery IT system.
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Boots Pharmacists: Why recognise a trade union?
Sun 20th January 2019
Doctors have the BMA, Physiotherapists the CSP, Nurses the RCN, Midwives the RCM and so on across the sector. Since 2008, Pharmacists have had the PDA Union standing up for their rights too.
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Should Boots be proud of their pay practice?
Sat 19th January 2019
A senior company director recently said that Boots are “proud of [its] market-leading levels of pay for [its] pharmacy population.” So we want to explain what that pay system involves.
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Pharmacists call on Boots to allow maximum voting period in recognition ballot
Fri 18th January 2019
Pharmacists and pre-registration trainees are calling upon Boots to support an application by the PDA Union to request that ballot papers are posted out at the start of the ballot period, to help ensure as many pharmacists as possible can participate in the vote.
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Are the new Defences to criminal prosecution for dispensing errors effective?
Fri 18th January 2019
For years the threat of criminal prosecution for pharmacists who have made an inadvertent dispensing error has been a concern for all pharmacists.
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Lloyds Pharmacy’s parent company has acquired Prescribing Support Services
Tue 15th January 2019
If you are working for Prescribing Support Services you may be subject to organisational or employment changes. Please let us know if you have any issues or concerns.