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Need some help with your pre-registration exam?
Thu 9th March 2017
As your registration exam is approaching, we would like to support you in ensuring that you are both well prepared and feel confident to sit the exam.
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Consultation Response on Independent Prescribers
Thu 23rd February 2017
The GPhC is considering relaxing rules to allow pharmacist independent prescribers to supervise those in training. As experts in medicines, it makes sense for the profession to be able to do that.
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Press Release: Update on PDAU Recognition with Boots
Mon 13th February 2017
Senior judges tell Boots pharmacists that if they want to have their collective bargaining rights represented by the PDA Union, then they must seek the derecognition of the Boots Pharmacists Association.
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The PDA’s February student events
Mon 30th January 2017
We have been invited by schools of pharmacy to attend various student events, so as to inform MPharm students about what a pharmacist's career is like and what the PDA's role is in supporting it.
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PSNI Consultation on Pharmacist Prescriber Register Annotation
Tue 17th January 2017
The Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is consulting on legal changes in relation to the annotation of the register of pharmacists who are qualified as independent prescribers, and corresponding changes for supplementary prescribers to ensure a consistent legislative approach to the two groups.
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PDA leadership team update
Mon 16th January 2017
John Murphy, Director of the PDA, retires from his position and Tom Kirkbride is appointed Chief Operating Officer for The Pharmacists' Defence Association.
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PDA’s working hours during the winter holiday
Mon 19th December 2016
We would like to send you our warmest wishes on behalf of all of us at the PDA, and we hope you have a happy festive season. If you need our help over this period, our opening times can be found below.
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Community Pharmacy Debate – House of Commons Main Chamber
Wed 2nd November 2016
An opposition day debate was held in the House of Commons on Wednesday 2nd November, with a motion not to cut funding to community pharmacies in England. The PDA Union provided a briefing document to MPs who were attending the debate.
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GPhC CPD Sampling Consultation
Wed 2nd November 2016
The GPhC proposed to change the way it samples registrants' CPD records - reducing the minimum sample size to 2.5% each year. The PDA called for research to assess whether CPD recording was of material benefit to the public and raised serious questions about the GPhC's approach to the consultation.
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Consultation on Pharmaceutical Services Regulations in Northern Ireland
Wed 2nd November 2016
The Department of Health in Northern Ireland consulted on legal changes to enable prescriptions from therapeutic radiographers and registered dieticians to be dispensed, and to allow community pharmacy contractors to refuse to provide services to patients (or those accompanying them) if they are violent or threaten violence or a criminal offence.