From rising stress to expanding clinical roles, pharmacists are facing mounting pressures.
Chronic understaffing combined with increased demand and limited resources are
compromising patient safety and leaving many pharmacists working alone or rushed.
Emotional strain is also growing, with reports of increased abuse and burnout.
Despite these challenges, pharmacists remain deeply committed to patient care — but
without meaningful support, the cracks in the system are becoming harder to ignore.
In this PJ Pod ‘Spotlight’ episode, interim executive editor Carlotta Eden and senior features editor Siobhan Chan unpack the results of The Pharmaceutical Journal’s latest salary and job satisfaction survey.
This episode was recorded in July 2025.
Read more on this topic:
- ‘Are staff shortages compromising safe pharmacy care?‘
- ‘Less than half of pharmacists who can prescribe do so daily‘
- ‘Is a lack of protected learning time holding back hospital pharmacists’ career development?‘
- ‘More than one-quarter of NHS trusts and boards do not provide protected learning time in job plans for hospital pharmacists‘
- ‘Less than 20% of pharmacists undertook DPP training over the past year, 2024 survey reveals‘
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