Business Lloydspharmacy will cut its hourly locum rates to £19 in some areas next month, in a move PDA director John Murphy (pictured) said put "no value on the service that a locum is offering".

Exclusive Pharmacists at independents are happier with their choice of career than those at Boots and Lloydspharmacy, while those at Co-operative Pharmacy rate their jobs the highest, the C+D Salary Survey has found.

People Demand for financial assistance from Pharmacist Support has risen by £31,000 since 2010. Charity manager Diane Leicester (pictured) blamed the increased cost of living and falling incomes.

Exclusive Contractors are more likely to suffer from workplace pressures such as stress than employee pharmacists and locums, the C+D Salary Survey 2012 has found.

Exclusive As C+D's Salary Survey revealed that more than 90 per cent of employee pharmacists made a dispensing error in the past year, IPF chief Claire Ward (pictured) said the error rate was "very worrying".

Exclusive Stress tops the list of pharmacists’ workplace worries and it is on the rise, as the C+D Salary Survey 2012 reveals rates have risen by three percentage points in the past year