Workforce update - joiners, leavers, and practising and non-practising pharmacists on the 2007 Register

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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7482 p691-693
15 December 2007

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Workforce update — joiners, leavers, and practising and non-practising pharmacists on the 2007 Register

In this article, Elizabeth Seston, Karen Hassell and Ellen Schafheutle present demographic data extracted from the 2007 Register of Pharmacists covering those who have joined and left the Register in the previous 12 months and differences between practising and non-practising pharmacists

National workforce census

Elizabeth Seston, PhD, is research associate

Karen Hassell, PhD, is chair in social pharmacy

Ellen Schafheutle, PhD, is research fellow

at the Centre for Pharmacy Workforce Studies, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL

Correspondence to:
Dr Seston (e-mail liz.seston@gmail.com)

SUMMARY

This is the third in an annual series of articles exploring the state of the Register of Pharmacists, formerly known as the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists.

This article describes the composition of the Register in August 2007, providing demographic data on members of both the practising and non-practising parts of the Register.

The article also provides information and demographic data on exits and entrants from the Register during the previous 12 months.

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