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PDA ballot could secure Superdrug union recognition ‘by spring’

The PDA has confirmed that a “formal ballot” will take place to secure union recognition at Superdrug – with the vote forecasted to be concluded “by the spring” – after the chain said it is “not willing to recognise the PDA voluntarily”.

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Pharmacy workers lose right to tattoo without licence in Wales

 
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Pharmacy technicians, students and pharmacists are among those who are no longer free to practise tattooing or body piercing without a licence, while exemptions around take-home naloxone have expanded.

‘Gross incompetence’: High Court orders GPhC to reconsider FtP case

 
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The High Court of Justice has called out the “gross incompetence and unfairness” of the GPhC’s handling of a pharmacist’s alleged role in “fraudulent” medication sales overseas, ordering the regulator to “undertake the whole process again”.

Lloydspharmacy: 80 ex-Sainsbury’s pharmacists head to employment tribunal

 
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The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) is preparing to support some 80 former Sainsbury’s pharmacists who only received statutory redundancy payments after Lloydspharmacy made them redundant in a four-day employment tribunal.

GPs and pharmacies must work in ‘joined-up way’, says BMA

 
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The BMA has urged GPs and community pharmacies to “work in a joined-up way” after GP leaders last week voted “overwhelmingly” for pharmacy blood pressure checks to be terminated immediately.

High street pharmacies ‘extinct’ by 2039 at current closure rate

 
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New analysis of pharmacy closure data has found that pharmacies “will cease trading” within 15 years if nothing is done to stop closures.