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Locuming in 2022: ‘A game of cat and mouse’
- 20 Feb 2023
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
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
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
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
With many pharmacies recruiting for full-time positions, why are so many newly qualified pharmacists turning to locuming instead? C+D investigates
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Locum agency reveals 10 cities with highest hourly rate for pharmacists
- 17 Nov 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
