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NEWS ROUNDUP RPS COMMITS TO TACKLING CLIMATE EMERGENCY
The climate crisis is the biggest threat modern society has ever faced. That’s why the RPS’ three national boards and Assembly have made a climate change declaration and are committing to collaborate with governments and other bodies across the world to tackle this crisis.
The healthcare sector accounts for 4.6 per cent of global carbon emissions. The climate crisis will lead to injuries and deaths resulting from extreme weather, increase the likelihood of water-borne illnesses and other infectious diseases, create greater prevalence of respiratory and cardiovascular disease, lead to millions of climate refugees, and have an impact on people’s mental health and wellbeing.
We are now calling on the whole pharmacy profession to ensure that everyone is committed to sustainability.
To accompany our declaration, we’re making a series of proactive commitments to influence change and hold ourselves accountable.
This includes working with our members and national boards to develop pharmacy’s role in decarbonisation, focusing on areas such as public health and prevention of disease, the medicines supply chain and the infrastructure in which pharmacy teams work.
We will work with governments, health services and the pharmaceutical industry to deliver on their sustainability strategies and advocate how pharmacy can contribute, shining a light on the work of RPS members who are leading the way on sustainability.
As well as this, we are already a zero to landfill organisation, championing recycling and eliminating single use plastics on our sites.
We aim to convert to 100 per cent renewable energy across our three offices and reduce our overall energy and water usage.
You can find out more about this work at:
www.rpharms.com/scotland
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THIRD RPS WORKFORCE WELLBEING SURVEY LAUNCHED
Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has launched its third annual Workforce Wellbeing survey, in partnership with Pharmacist Support, as part of the campaign to champion the mental health and wellbeing of pharmacists.
The survey is open to all pharmacists in every setting, including students. This year’s survey is focussed on exploring the prevention of poor mental health and wellbeing at work.
Our 2020 mental health and wellbeing survey found that 89 per cent of the pharmacy workforce were at high risk of burnout and 34 per cent of respondents had considered leaving the pharmacy profession.
The survey provides evidence of the mental health and wellbeing challenges you’re facing in the workplace. The results inform our work with governments across Great Britain, the NHS and wider stakeholders to define how the mental health and wellbeing of pharmacists can be better supported.
Through our Workforce Wellbeing campaign, RPS has achieved access for all pharmacists to national health and wellbeing services across Great Britain in parity with other healthcare professions.
‘The Workforce Wellbeing survey is crucial for understanding the health and wellbeing challenges everyone from pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists, to undergraduate students, face every day,’ said RPS President, Claire Anderson.
‘We need you to fill out the survey to help make a difference and ensure everyone feels safe, happy and healthy in the workplace. It is equally crucial that employers listen and act on these needs and make the environment an enjoyable place to be.’
‘It’s important as the profession’s independent charity that we understand the changing needs of the people we are here to support,’ added Danielle Hunt, Chief Executive of Pharmacist Support.
‘The results of this survey help us to develop and shape the charity’s services, with last year's results informing the development of our new counselling service and new proactive wellbeing resources.’
The Workforce Wellbeing Survey is anonymous and you don’t need to be a member of RPS to take part. It takes approximately fifteen minutes to complete and can be accessed at
www.rpharms.com/wellbeing
RPS SCOTLAND ADVOCATING FOR PHARMACY
RPS in Scotland has held several meetings with MSPs following the start of the new Parliamentary session. These have included three ministerial meetings. We met with the Minister for Mental Health and Social Care to discuss how pharmacists can support people with their mental health and the wellbeing of the pharmacy workforce. During the meeting, the Minister asked RPS Scotland to pass on his thanks and best wishes to pharmacists across Scotland for their hard work both during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
We also met with the Minister for Drugs Policy to highlight the role that pharmacists can play in reducing drug harms and drug deaths. Our third ministerial meeting was with the Minister for Public Health, Women’s Health and Sport. We discussed the recently published Women’s Health Plan and the need for improved digital solutions to support pharmacy across all sectors in Scotland.
You can find out more about our work through our regular posts and weekly updates on Twitter @RPSScotland
Claire Anderson
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