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Pay and workplace pressure behind community pharmacy retention issues

 
• By Valeria Fiore

A survey by the Community Pharmacy Workforce Development Group (CPWDG) has shed light on the struggles faced by employers with retaining pharmacy staff and unfilled positions.

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The CPWDG group estimates that under 25,000 pharmacists in England will need to be trained as IPs

The CPWDG cross-sector working group – which brings together representatives from the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA), the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp) and the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) – gathered data from around 4,500 pharmacy premises via a one-week survey it carried out in July last year, a spokesperson for the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) told C+D today (June 3).

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