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Survey: Total community pharmacy workforce drops 6 per cent in a year
The full-time equivalent community pharmacy workforce saw a 6 per cent decline in a year, while the overall number of pharmacists remains nearly constant,...
‘NHS workforce plan will take years, indeed decades to come to fruition’
The Pharmacists Defence Association (PDA) has expressed its keenness to work with the NHS nationally and at the ICB level to discuss how the...
Pharmacy bodies’ reaction on newly revealed ‘NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan’
The government has unveiled its much awaited 'NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan' to tackle the staff shortage in the pharmacy sector. The plan set out...
Pharmacy bodies call on government to halt further recruitment of pharmacists into GP surgeries
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) announced that the government has met its commitment to recruiting 26,000 more primary care professionals –...
CCA estimates community pharmacy to experience equivalent of three fallow years by 2024
The Company Chemists Association (CCA)’s workforce finding showed that by 2024 eight years’ worth of growth of the pharmacist workforce will have been funnelled...
Hewitt review recognises ‘damaging consequences’ of ARRS on community pharmacy
The recruitment of pharmacists in Primary Care Networks (PCNs) has exacerbated a general shortage of pharmacists, revealed an independent review of Integrated Care Systems...