Good News!

We’ve made it on to the NHS Framework agreement for the supply of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The agreement starts in April and will last until 2012 and will mean PL-UK will have access to many more positions across the NHS.

More news to follow over the coming weeks.

Hospital Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

At PL-UK we are at the final stage of (hopefully) achieving NHS PASA approved status for a three year contract. We’ve jumped through about five hoops  with one to go and if successful we will join the approved list in April 2009.

In preperation we are looking to recruit pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who have either hospital experience or are keen to experience hospital pharmacy for the first time. It’s important that we start to recruit now as the requirements for working in hospitals are more stringent than community. All candidates must be CRB checked by PL-UK and there’s some training obligations also. However, the upside is a very rewarding experience both professionally and financially and long term job security as hospital locum positions are usually for weeks or months not the odd day like community pharmacy. MFor more information please call Shaun on 0800 8818844

Christmas Panic

As sure as eggs is eggs the panic will be starting this week for prescriptions to cover the Christmas period. Are pharmacies closed for two weeks over the Christmas period so patients are unable to collect their medication causing them to die a slow and painful death? No is the simple answer. The weekend falling directly after Boxing Day does make things a bit trickier this year than most, but tens of thousands of people will collect extra prescriptions to cover the festive period but I can guarantee they will still try to collect their prescriptions as normal in January.

Is this a British phenomenon? I think so. The Americans and most other countries have come up with an ingenious solution to this annual problem – they make patients pay for their medication!!! God bless the NHS.