NHS Lothian has written to all community pharmacists in the health board region to warn of the impact short-notice pharmacy closures are having.

Scott Rutherford has been elected as the first president of the PDA's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pharmacists' Network. 

Members can claim tax relief on fees back to 6 April 2018.

Action is needed to prevent violence in pharmacies, the PDA has said as disturbing video footage emerged of an assault on a pharmacist. 

Nine PDA Union representatives have been appointed for LloydsPharmacy following a voluntary agreement between the multiple and the union. 

The GPhC is disproportionately tough on individual registrants compared to pharmacy owners and premises, the PDA has claimed. 

The PDA has warned members they are putting patients at risk if medicines they prescribe are not made known to their GP.

Pharmacists working for Rowlands Pharmacy have been informed they will receive a maximum pay increase of one per cent from April 1.

The PDA has urged the GPhC not to count the assessment this month as one of students' three attempts to pass.

Morrisons has confirmed it will allow its pharmacists working in Scotland to access a £500 Government payment after managers refused this. 

PDA chair Mark Koziol says community pharmacy's delivery of Covid vaccines may change the government's perception of the sector.

The PDA says all community pharmacies should deliver second doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine.

There are concerns that locums may not appear on employers' lists for priority vaccination as health workers.

Some employers are allegedly cancelling study leave for provisionally registered pharmacists, the PDA claims. 

Aston University and the PDA are examining the impact of Covid-19 on pharmacy practice in the UK.

The charity says it is committed to running its ACTNow well-being awareness campaign in 2021

Elsy Gomez Campos first president of the PDA's Black and Minority Ethnic Pharmacists' Network