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A PDA member shares their story: Living and working with autism
Thu 20th August 2020
Living with an invisible disability makes it difficult for people to understand the daily struggle people living and working with autism face. Currently 1.1% of the UK population is on the autism spectrum which means that 650,000 people are also living with this invisible disability, and of that 650,000, only 16% of autistic adults are in full-term employment. As a member of this 16%, working full time with autism is hard.
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How the coronavirus crisis has impacted on pharmacy students – part 5
Wed 19th August 2020
In the latest instalment of our ‘coronavirus and its impact on pharmacy students’ series, we talk to Zahra Nawaz, a second-year student from the University of Wolverhampton. Here, Zahra shares her experience of studying during a global pandemic, life during lockdown and what she has learned since becoming a PDA Student Rep.
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How the coronavirus crisis has impacted on pre-registration pharmacists – part 3
Wed 12th August 2020
In the latest instalment of our ‘coronavirus and its impact on pre-registration pharmacists’ series, we talk to Noel Kizere, a PDA Rep who at the point of writing this article, was a pre-reg hospital pharmacist. Noel is now a provisionally registered pharmacist who will shortly begin working at Boots.
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How the coronavirus crisis has impacted on pre-registration pharmacists – part 2
Wed 5th August 2020
In the second instalment of our ‘coronavirus and its impact on pre-registration pharmacists’ series, we talk to Kyra Jones, a PDA Provisionally Registered Rep who at the point of writing this article, was a pre-reg community pharmacist at Boots.
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How the coronavirus crisis has impacted on Prison Pharmacists
Thu 23rd July 2020
In the latest in our string of ‘coronavirus and its impact’ series of interviews, we caught up with PDA Union South East Regional Committee Member, Andrew Jukes, who has been working as a locum in a prison in Lewes, East Sussex since December 2019 - before the coronavirus crisis began.
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How the coronavirus crisis has impacted on pharmacy students – part 4
Wed 15th July 2020
In the latest instalment of our ‘coronavirus and its impact on pharmacy students’ series, we talk to Mona Badawy, who at the point of writing this article, was a final year MPharm student at Robert Gordon University. After being a PDA Student Rep for four years, Mona is now a PDA Pre-Reg Rep and shares her journey with us.
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How the coronavirus crisis has impacted on pharmacy students – part 3
Thu 9th July 2020
In the third instalment of our ‘coronavirus and its impact on pharmacy students’ series, we talk to Jagraj Thandi, a final year MPharm student at Birmingham University. Find out about Jagrag’s experiences and why he decided to join the PDA and become a union rep.
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How the coronavirus crisis has impacted on pharmacy students – part 2
Tue 30th June 2020
In the second instalment of our ‘coronavirus and its impact on pharmacy students’ series, we talk to Osariemen Egharevba-Buckman, a second-year MPharm student at Medway School of Pharmacy.
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How the coronavirus crisis has impacted on pharmacy students – part 1
Thu 18th June 2020
The lockdown measures announced on 23 March has had a serious impact on the way universities run, affecting pharmacy students nationwide.
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How the coronavirus crisis has impacted on pre-registration pharmacists – part 1
Thu 7th May 2020
On 26 March, when our regulatory body, the GPhC released a statement regarding the postponement of the registration exam, the initial feeling amongst us pre-regs was anger and confusion, recalls Jasraj S Matharu.