Employee representative service launched by PDA
The Pharmacists' Defence Association is setting up an employee representative service for pharmacists who have to attend a disciplinary hearing.
Mark Koziol, director of the PDA, explained that employers are legally
obliged to allow an employee to be accompanied by a work colleague at
a disciplinary hearing. “Currently this often ends up being a non-pharmacist
or an inexperienced pharmacist,” he commented. “For this
reason, we intend to establish and train a national bank of pharmacist
employee representatives who will act as the ‘official work colleague’ for
employees who are required to attend a serious disciplinary hearing within
their work organisation.”
The service will be provided free of charge to PDA members. It will also
be open for non-PDA members to use subject to availability of representatives
and a fee to cover the costs of the service.
The PDA is asking employee pharmacists who would like to perform the
role to register their interest on-line at www.the-pda.org or by telephone
on 0121 694 7000.
Meanwhile, the PDA has launched a series of risk-management case studies
that will be made available free of charge to all pharmacists. The case
studies will be real-life examples of situations in which pharmacists
have found themselves and will explain how the situations arose, what
the outcomes where and lessons that can be learnt. |
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