Employment

Tell us how the coronavirus pandemic has affected your working conditions

This year’s Salary and Job Satisfaction Survey contains all the usual questions, but it also delves into how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the working lives of pharmacists.…

How I boosted my pharmacy CV with extracurricular activities

It takes more than academic achievement to succeed as a pharmacist, says fourth-year pharmacy student Alex McTaggart.…

Dedicated research time could improve recruitment and retention of NHS staff, say academics

Guaranteeing healthcare professionals — including pharmacists — protected time to devote to research has the potential to be “transformational,” according to a report by the Academy of Medical Sciences.…

Pay and leave entitlements for working parents

The legal rights new parents need to know to help in balancing their pharmacy career with caring for babies and children.…

More than £50,000 in unpaid locum fees recovered in 2019, says PDA

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association has helped locum pharmacists recover more than £50,000 in unpaid fees so far in 2019.…

Pharmacists face same workforce crisis as general practice, warns CCA chief

Community pharmacy is “facing the same recruitment and retention crisis” as general practice, the head of the Company Chemists’ Association has said.…

‘Urgent action’ needed on pharmacist shortages

NHS workforce planners warn that they are running out of pharmacists as demand for the profession rises.…

‘No ethnicity pay issue’ claim pharmacy multiples

The UK’s four largest community pharmacy multiples currently do not collect ethnicity pay data for their pharmacist employees, with two of the high street chains telling The Pharmaceutical Journal that there was no ethnicity pay gap within their respective organisation…

Pharmacy staff return to work after three-month strike, despite unresolved pay dispute

Pharmacy staff in NHS Tayside, who went on strike over a pay dispute, returned to work on 11 November 2019 after three months without a resolution.…

Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union negotiates 1.8% pay rise for Boots pharmacists

Boots pharmacists have been given a 1.8% pay increase following negotiations with the Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union.…