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.…
Pharmacy organisations sign up to ‘Medicines to Gaza’ campaign Following on from the success of the ‘Medicines to Ukraine’ model, which raised £4.5m, the Pharmacists’ Defence Association announced the new Gaza scheme at the International Pharmaceutical Federation Congress in Cape Town on 3 September 2024.…
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.…
Pharmacists take legal action against LloydsPharmacy over redundancy payments Pharmacists who worked in branches of Sainsbury’s have brought a claim against LloydsPharmacy regarding enhanced redundancy payments they believe they should have received.…
Redundancy ‘a possibility’ for Boots pharmacists as it shuts 300 pharmacies, union says The Pharmacists' Defence Association said it expects at-risk Boots employees to receive “adequate redundancy compensation".…
Hospital pharmacists to vote on revised government pay offer ‘without recommendation’ from union The revised pay offer for NHS staff includes a one-off payment amounting to 2% of an individual’s salary in 2022/2023, as well as an additional payment “worth at least £1,250 per person”.…
LloydsPharmacy’s withdrawal from Sainsbury’s may put 400 pharmacist jobs at risk, says union Exclusive: The Pharmacists' Defence Association, which represents pharmacists at the multiple, has said "the vast majority will probably get made redundant".…
UK pharmacist salaries increased by 2.6% in 2022 The increase in average annual pay of pharmacists is significantly below inflation, which hit 10.1% in October 2022.…
Only 2.6% of pharmacists report permanent safe staffing levels, finds PDA survey The percentage of pharmacists who reported that their workplace always has safe staffing levels has dropped more than 6% since 2020.…
Pharmacists who fail their registration assessment will be offered alternative jobs or time off, employer says Exclusive: Multiple offers support to provisionally registered pharmacists who will have to stop practising if they do not pass their assessment.…