Pharmacy staff with disabilities sought for research into work coping strategies
Researchers at the University of Reading want to interview pharmacists with disabilities about how they cope with their work.
Although their main interest is pharmacists, they also wish to contact
pharmacy technicians and other pharmacy staff with disabilities of any
form, including learning disabilities, who are or have recently been
involved in patient care or in any work connected with medicines or health
care, including advice-giving, academia, administration, publishing or
management.
The research has been commissioned by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society,
which wants to ensure that its regulatory activities will comply with
an extension of disability legislation that comes into force on 1 October.
The Society’s legal advisers believe that it is a “qualifications
body” under the terms of the new legislation.
The work is a prelude to a bid for funding for a project to identify
and understand effective coping strategies employed by pharmacists with
disabilities, so that the Society will be in a better-informed position
to advise and support persons with disabilities who seek to join the
Register.
Pharmacists and pharmacy staff willing to take part in the research should
contact Alex Iantaffi (e-mail aimathom-research@yahoo.co.uk; tel 07956
516688 Monday–Friday 6.30–7.30pm only). |
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