NEWS
PHARMACY WELCOMES NEW LEADERSHIP TEAM
Dickson Chemist has strengthened the management team at its Viewpark, Uddingston, practice as part of a group-wide restructuring designed to further enhance its market-leading quality of care.
The family-owned company has appointed Sinead Margey as pharmacy manager and Leanne Mitchell as pharmacy supervisor in the first stage of a wider consolidation and restructuring of its senior teams.
The appointments will introduce, with the supervisor role, a new layer of management which will free up highly qualified pharmacy managers from time-consuming administration duties and allow them to concentrate on their crucial clinical role.
‘By bringing in this new structure,’ said Stephen Dickson, director and superintendent pharmacist at Dickson Chemist, ‘the pharmacy manager will be able to focus on basic care and the best qualified of our people will be able to take on the supervisor role.
‘Sinead Margey has already made an amazing difference to the running of the Viewpark practice and is reaching out to the local community
INTEGRATED FIVE-YEAR PHARMACY PROGRAMME UNDER
DISCUSSION
Building on the success of its existing Pharmacy four-year degree plus one year pre- registration training programme, Scotland has announced plans to explore options to develop an integrated five-year pharmacy programme with a view to further improve the current training arrangements.
Sinead Margey
in a way which will make a real difference to people’s lives.’
Dickson Chemist intends to roll out the new regime across the five NHS
and one specialist private pharmacies in the group, which was opened in Tollcross in Glasgow more than 30 years ago and has been serving local communities ever since.
MSP VISITS WINNING PHARMACIST
to Jenny Gilruth about the services he provides and how they benefit the public and his patients. He also discussed how the community pharmacy can play a much bigger role in health and social care integration, with the community pharmacists playing their full part in the multidisciplinary team in the community.
(L-R): Nazeem Sadiq, Jenny Gilruth MSP and Mahyar Nickkho-Amiry
Scotland’s I Love My Pharmacist winner, Naseem Sadiq, has received support from his local MSP, Jenny Gilruth, who recently
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visited him at his pharmacy, Dears Pharmacy in Glenrothes.
During the visit, Naseem spoke
‘I am delighted that our local MSP Jenny Gilruth came to support me being Scottish winner and finalist in the I Love My Pharmacist Award,’ Naseem said. ‘I am humbled to be the regional winner amongst such a strong field of shortlisted pharmacists in Scotland and would like to express my appreciation to all the members of the public who have taken the time to vote for me.’
The current one-year Pre-Registration Pharmacist Scheme (PRPS) in Scotland is managed by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) for the 170 trainees and funded through the Scottish Government. NES manages the national recruitment, training programmes and quality management processes for the PRPS. Unique in the UK, it is recognised as a successful scheme and has allowed trainees to benefit from a standardised training programme in which they and their tutors, are fully supported to meet the requirements of the pharmacy regulator.
‘These developments should lead to further integration of undergraduate education and pre-registration training and better prepare new pharmacists for practice in Scotland,’ said Scotland’s Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Dr Rose Marie Parr. ‘Another benefit will be improved management of pharmacy trainee numbers to meet workforce demands both in terms of initial recruitment and on-going career progression and this supports Ministerial priorities to strengthen the workforce, especially in primary care.’
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