Government plans for 2.8% pay uplift for hospital pharmacy staff Unite the Union described the pay increase an “insult”, saying the NHS will not remedy its recruitment and retention crisis without tackling the issue of restorative pay.…
Pharmacist salaries increase by 12% in one year, show ONS data ONS data show that in 2024, the median full-time salary for male pharmacists was £53,498, compared with £47,503 for female pharmacists.…
Hospital pharmacists vote to accept 5.5% pay offer from UK government Unite the Union said that two-thirds of Unite members voted in favour of the pay increase for NHS workers in England.…
What will it take to fix pharmacy’s stubbornly unchanged ethnicity pay gap? The Pharmaceutical Journal’s latest survey data show ethnic minority pharmacists continue to be paid less than their white colleagues.…
Hospital pharmacists to receive 5.5% pay rise Health secretary Wes Streeting said the government has accepted the NHS Pay Review Body’s recommendation to offer a 5.5% increase with effect from 1 April 2024 for all Agenda for Change staff.…
SNP pledges ‘framework’ for drug consumption rooms in manifesto As part of its manifesto for the UK general election, the Scottish National Party also said it would decriminalise drugs for personal use.…
Pharmacy leaders warn of pressures on ‘exhausted, overworked’ pharmacists during longest doctors’ strike in NHS history The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists said it has heard that pharmacists are receiving “unreasonable requests from management” during the strike, which is due to last six days.…
Boots pharmacists to get 5% pay rise and one-off bonus payment A one-off payment of £750 will be paid in August 2024 to support the extra work in setting up and running additional community pharmacy services.…
LloydsPharmacy pharmacists agree to bonus payment but no salary increase in settlement The Pharmacists' Defence Association Union, which represents pharmacists working at LloydsPharmacy, said the deal had been agreed owing to job uncertainty at the multiple for many members.…
Lessons community pharmacy could learn from the junior doctors’ strike The Pharmaceutical Journal's health policy columnist considers what pharmacists can take from the junior doctors' approach to industrial action.…
