Listening friends scheme

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The Listening Friends Scheme offers free telephone help to pharmacists under stress.

A call to the scheme will put the pharmacist in touch with a fellow pharmacist who will be there to give time to talk about the problems causing the stress. The Listening Friend will have insight into the particular pressures that apply in pharmacy but the service is also there to help with problems not related to work.

The service is run by volunteer pharmacists, who have all been trained in listening skills and may be able to direct pharmacists under stress to more specialist help if needed.

Contact with the Listening Friends is made initially by telephoning

020 7572 2442 (VOICEMAIL)

where a voicemail answering service will take details of a first name, a telephone number and a convenient time to call. A Listening Friend will then call back, usually on the evening of the same day or within 24 hours.

The scheme is supported by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Benevolent Fund.

For additional information about the scheme, or the fund and the services it offers, call 01327 264739 or 01323 890135 or e-mail benevolent.fund@rpsgb.org