Furious NHS Tayside pharmacy support workers have vowed to continue strike action after the process for resolving a long running pay dispute suddenly collapsed. Due to a flawed job evaluation…Read more…
‘Latest victims of bandit capitalism’
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is facing pressure from MPs to handover £12m in promised redundancy payments to staff who worked at its former Avonmouth site. The calls came as Unite called…Read more…
‘People are fed up’
“Fed up” Scottish pharmacy workers will go on strike if progress is not made in a long running pay dispute at a meeting between Unite officials and NHS bosses tomorrow (July 4). NHS Tayside…Read more…
Stop the lower standards ‘conveyer belt’
A pharmacy crisis about maintaining professional standards is looming, as cash-hungry universities accept a ‘conveyer belt’ of students, many of whom fail at the final hurdle. The Guild of…Read more…
‘Permission to view’
Supermarket pharmacies are to get access to the records of millions of NHS patients for the first time this autumn amid concerns about confidentiality and the exploitation of the information for…Read more…