As PCT's are going to close and white paper new changes should a current Pharmacy student begin to panic about his/her job prospects upon qualification in 2013? Will there even be locum work available?
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As PCT's are going to close and white paper new changes should a current Pharmacy student begin to panic about his/her job prospects upon qualification in 2013? Will there even be locum work available?
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There will always be a need for locums, however work may not just be as plentiful in future. Increases in EU pharmacists and number of schools of Pharmacy in UK will ensure this. Locum rates and full time salaries will be reduced, make no mistake about it. An over-supply will be an unmitigating disaster and benefit no one but the multiples.
If remote supervision is introduced and manipulated in such a way that one Pharmacist can take charge of three of four Pharmacies, then you can pretty much kiss good bye to locuming. In relation to the impact of closure of PCTs, I don't know exactly how this will directly affect community positions, however maybe someone on here does.
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Last edited by culchie82; 6th, October 2010 at 06:07 PM. Reason: Dam iPhone not worth a salt
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Fewer jobs for pixies, so no great loss
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Newly registered in 1981
Who will create all the paperwork and put up hoops for us to jump through?
Where am I?; In the Pharmacy.
Who are you?; The new Number 2.
Who is number 1?; You are number 6.
What do you want?;..................
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im sure there still will be. Thank god imigration policies should be hardening up under the conservatives, more people leaving the profession due to the politics. Many chains such as tesco are opening more stores, more people becoming ill due to recession=more Rx's, expanding roles of the pharmacist. Salaries may freeze but i dont neccearily think they will drop. If locum rates drop then its our own fault, because locums will be offering to work for less to undercut each other but then that is the same risk with any contract work-hasnt really effected trades though its easy to get a plumber but they are all expensive. Thats the one problem with this profession, very pessemistic, i have always looked on the bright side of life and believe me it has not always been easy for me. An enthusiatic pharmacist will always be more employable. Plus it will seperate the good pharmacists from the pill pushers, they will be paid more.
Although dont just limit your options to hospital or community, the mpharm is very diverse. Get yourself and mba or masters in a field like health economics and you will be gold dust for analyst companys, pharma, consultancys etc Or go part time and get another degree. There is alot of change at the moment, people fear change. But as for salaries i think they should remain around the mid £40k mark.
Last edited by johnep; 9th, October 2010 at 06:06 AM.
Newly registered in 1981
Agree with your post apart from this line.
"Plus it will seperate the good pharmacists from the pill pushers, they will be paid more."
It won't.
Career vocational pharmacists with a get in there get the job done attitude, good with patients, prescribers alike, understand the drug tariff and the payment system, who can motivate staff and run a tight ship (shop) are treated and are just viewed as 'grunts'. We are in fact gold dust to any business - why can't head office realise?
Where am I?; In the Pharmacy.
Who are you?; The new Number 2.
Who is number 1?; You are number 6.
What do you want?;..................
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Correct we are valued as a 'nuisance'. Only there because the law currently requires. That is why the multiples are campagning
for RS. Will be sold to the DUH as a way of cutting costs.
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