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  • Locuming in 2022: ‘A game of cat and mouse’

    • 20 Feb 2023
    • Eliza Loukou

    Responding to C+D’s 2022 Salary Survey, locum pharmacists detailed fighting to secure shifts, mounting workloads and changes to the profession. Read what they had to say

  • At a glance: Compare how locum rates vary across Great Britain

    • 20 Feb 2023
    • Costanza Potter

    Use C+D's interactive chart to compare locum pharmacists' average hourly rate across Great Britain over the last three years

  • Salary Survey 2022: Is the locum rate bubble about to burst?

    • 20 Feb 2023
    • Beth Kennedy

    Salary Survey results indicate that locum rates have reached record highs. But C+D’s editor Beth Kennedy wonders whether recent events mean the tide is about to turn

  • Boots to launch new locum management system amid pharmacist shortage row

    • 17 Nov 2022
    • Eliza Loukou & Valerie Fiore

    Boots is planning to launch a new locum management system later this year, as it continues to experience “some challenges with pharmacist resource”, it has revealed.

  • Why are newly qualified pharmacists going straight into locuming?

    • 17 Nov 2022
    • Valeria Fiore

    With many pharmacies recruiting for full-time positions, why are so many newly qualified pharmacists turning to locuming instead? C+D investigates

  • Locum agency reveals 10 cities with highest hourly rate for pharmacists

    • 17 Nov 2022
    • Eliza Loukou & Valerie Fiore

    There are significant regional differences between hourly locum pharmacy rates, according to an analysis carried out by booking platform Locate a Locum.

  • Boots launches role for pharmacists providing ‘enhanced clinical care’

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Isabel Finch

    Boots has launched a “specialist practitioner” role to recognise pharmacists who deliver “enhanced clinical care” in the community.

  • Military pharmacists: A life of variety, if you can obey orders

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Thomas Cox

    Life as a military pharmacist is full of variety, but you need to be prepared to take orders, two majors tell C+D.

  • The pharmacy manager who launched an apprenticeship scheme

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Eliza Slawther

    Manager Keely Lucas wanted to give other young people the opportunities she had in community pharmacy, so she created an apprenticeship – winning a C+D award for the initiative

  • ‘Google is interested’: Pharmacy careers advice from experts

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Thomas Cox

    The speakers at C+D’s careers sessions at the Pharmacy Show showcased the range of work environments available to pharmacists, ranging from industrial pharmacy to healthcare policy

  • The pharmacy technician who oversees seven pharmacies

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Valeria Fiore

    A pharmacy technician reveals the management secrets that won her a C+D Award and promotion to area manager

  • Podcast: How I went from locum to pharmacy journalist

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Beth Kennedy

    Making the leap from locuming in Belfast to becoming a journalist in London was challenging but rewarding, says C+D's women's board advisor Naimah Callachand

  • 'From job highs to personal lows – how my experiences have shaped my varied pharmacy career'

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Grace Lewis

    From hospital to community, from high-profile national leadership roles to starting her own business – Harpreet Chana explains how her personal highs and lows have shaped her pharmacy career

  • ‘Why I moved from the UK to Canada to work as a pharmacist’

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Paul Scott Harris

    A yearning for developing more clinical skills led pharmacist Paul Scott-Harris to move from the UK to Canada

  • The app making new connections between locums and pharmacy owners

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Emma Wilkinson

    The founder of The Locum App, winner of Online Initiative of the Year at the C+D Awards 2020, talks about why he started the business and how it's grown since 2016

  • ‘NHSE&I must consider what impact career competition is having on pharmacy’

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Nigel Swift

    Pharmacy’s priorities should be patient care and creating professional development pathways – not career competition, says Rowlands’ Nigel Swift

  • Podcast – My experience working in the hidden world of prison pharmacy

    • 12 Aug 2022
    • Emily Stearn

    Adefunmilola Oshi-Ojuri, the specialist lead pharmacist at HM Prison Wandsworth, reveals how she worked her way up within prison pharmacy and the biggest misconceptions of working in the health and justice sector in the latest episode.

  • CPS funds PhD spot for pharmacist to study community pharmacy services

    • 11 Aug 2022
    • Valeria Fiore

    Pharmacists working in Scotland will be able to apply for a PhD opportunity fully funded by Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS).

  • Avicenna and Weldricks reveal their newly qualified pharmacist offerings

    • 11 Aug 2022
    • Emily Stearn, Eliza Loukou

    Following decisions by the multiples to raise their starting salaries for newly qualified pharmacists in recent weeks, Avicenna, Weldricks and an anonymous independent pharmacy have revealed to C+D what they offer pharmacists

  • Podcast: Why I founded the UK Black Pharmacist Association

    • 11 Aug 2022
    • Beth Kennedy

    UKBPA president Elsy Gomez Campos reveals how she worked her way up in pharmacy after moving to the UK from Cuba in the latest A Coffee With...podcast