Last chance to return pharmacy workforce census form
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has issued a reminder to members that the closing date for returning completed 2005 pharmacy workforce census forms is Tuesday 1 November.
Census forms were sent to every pharmacist with a registered address
in Britain — a total of 42,010. To date, around 23,000 responses
have been received, giving a response rate so far of around 55 per cent.
The Society wants to hear from all pharmacists who received a form, whether
they are delivering care for patients directly, providing technical or
advisory services, working in a management or strategic role, using pharmaceutical
skills within industry or contributing to pharmacy education.
Equally importantly, the Society wants to hear from those who are in
part-time work, those who are not working at all and those who are working
in fields outside
pharmacy. It is important for the Society to know whether or not such
pharmacists intend to return to pharmacy practice, because this is an
important aspect of workforce
planning.
Further information about the census is available from the Society’s
registration division (tel 020 7572 2322, e-mail registration@rpsgb.org).
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