If you are a locum pharmacist, the locum membership group is your channel of communication with the PDA. We hold three formal meetings a year, many informal ones and are in regular communication by E-mail.
Several group members hold leading positions with the RPSGB. The group has members with considerable experience in many branches of pharmacy either living or working, or in close communication with other pharmacists, in all parts of the United Kingdom.
We represent locum pharmacists both individually and generally. Several of our members have undergone specialised training to enable them to represent pharmacists with problems. Group members have attended White Paper events in various parts of the country, made representations over the Responsible Pharmacist regulations and been part of Transcom deliberations over the future of the new Professional Body.
The locum group was represented at the Society Workplace pressures event and members not only fed into the PDA response to the GPhC consultation but the PDA were generous enough to allow us a separate section so that locum issues could be clearly shown as a complementary but separate agenda.
One of our members, Graeme Stafford, started the online petition, which was so successful in calling for decriminalisation of dispensing errors.
So if you have any questions, queries, suggestions (or complaints) contact us via the PDA website. We will respond to your communication and, if you ask, will consider your comments for our next agenda and for possible referral to the PDA itself for action.