Employment

Ethnicity pay gap for UK pharmacists increases

The difference in pay between white and non-white pharmacists has widened by 0.3 percentage points over the last year, figures from The Pharmaceutical Journal’s 2019 salary and job satisfaction survey show…

Pharmacy’s ethnicity pay gap widens

As the government consults on whether to make reporting of ethnicity pay data mandatory for employers, our analyses show the extent of the ethnicity pay gap among pharmacists. …

Reinvigorating community pharmacy: ways to boost morale

A survey by The Pharmaceutical Journal shows that community pharmacy is the sector with the lowest morale, so we asked community pharmacists what needs to change.…

Pharmacy workers begin strike over pay dispute amid claims of government interference

Pharmacy support workers at NHS Tayside have begun strike action, following the breakdown of talks between NHS officials and Unite the Union over a pay dispute.…

Union says it will take ‘continuous strike action’ over pharmacy support workers’ pay

Unite the Union has confirmed that pharmacy support workers in NHS Tayside will begin “continuous strike action” on 19 August 2019.…

Pharmacy support workers vote in favour of strike action over pay dispute

The vast majority of pharmacy support workers in NHS Tayside have voted in favour of industrial action following a dispute over pay, Unite the Union has said.…

Union for Boots pharmacists pledges support for members affected by closures

The union that now represents Boots pharmacists has pledged to support its members who have been affected by the announced closures of 200 Boots stores in the UK by 2021.…

Boots to close 200 stores

Boots is to close 200 stores during the next 18 months, its US parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance has announced.…

Tax changes could make work as a locum ‘untenable’, pharmacy bodies warn

Changes to off-payroll working rules could deter pharmacists from working as locums, according to a joint statement from six pharmacy bodies.…

Financial pressures make it ‘difficult’ to maintain a safe service, NPA survey says

The vast majority of respondents to a National Pharmacy Association member survey said that current financial pressures were making it “more difficult for pharmacies to maintain a safe service to patients”.…