Jennifer Richardson: Quality of remuneration is essential

Comment C+D deputy & features editor Jennifer Richardson poses a tricky dilemma to readers regarding payments and asks why pharmacists should have to settle for inaccuracies
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Francine Bissenden, Community pharmacist
Posted on 4 September 2011.
To be fair - though we all expect our salaries to be correct, I suspect there isn't one pharmacist out there who doesn't regularly work over their hours for no remuneration, or do paperwork in an unpaid break, or deliver a prescription on the way home, or look something up for a patient on their home computer? We all do over and above what we are paid for because we care about our patients - that is why we chose to be pharmacists. As an employee pharmacist I know the company which employs me expects these extras for our patients, so they shouldn't complain when the NHS expects the same from them.
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