NPA Sue a past employee of ASDA for negligence
Now the NPA are suing pharmacists for dispensing errors
Facebook post online at your peril and face dismissal
Have a rant on FB (or in here) and not specifically mention a company and you could lose your job.
Employment Tribunal decides dismissal for failing to follow SOPs(to the letter) is a proportionate sanction
Pharmacist uses professional common sense, gets sacked, ET agrees.
Also scary stories about bullying employers when a pharmacist wants to take a lunch break and MUR targets.
Payout to "harmed" patent £1,500, legal bill £17,000
Its a jungle out there - The PDA are actively fighting our corner so all you newbies join up if you haven't already.
I gather that when it comes to defending individual Pharmacist's interests, the NPA are about as useful as tits on a bull. Would I be right in that assertion?
Yes. The contractor has insurance arranged through NPA usually. If an error occurs the RP may have been responsible but the companies indemnity insurance will cough up. Now if the company seeks to discipline the pharmacist, the pharmacist can't seek support from the NPA insurance. I haven't heard of NPA insurance persuing an employee for restitution but I fear it is a scenario that could at some point arise.
As most multiples can argue that an error is simply a breach of SOP, if an aggrieved patient took action against the pharmacist, the company liability could be in doubt and the pharmacist may be alone in defending him/her self against a civil action. There are all manner of complex arguments about liability and I would assume that company insurance would cover everything as the company is the contractor and responsible for the discharge of the contract, but in this day and age I wouldn't count on it. Also where would an individual pharmacist have the wherewithall to fight his/her corner in such a situation?
As everyone here, including me, says, join the PDA.
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