Calls to pause GP pharmacist recruitment to prevent community pharmacy ‘workforce drain’

A shortage of pharmacists in community pharmacies caused by the push to recruit more in GP practices is “equally acute in England and Wales”, AIMp has said, as it backs CPS’s call to temporarily pause recruitment efforts in Scotland.

Calls for GPs to stop recruiting pharmacists to PCNs, following workforce shortages in community pharmacy
CPS: “Simply not enough pharmacist and pharmacy technician hours in the country to satisfy the demand”

The “uncoordinated recruitment” of pharmacy professionals to GP and primary care support roles “is now one of the major and enduring contributing factors to [community pharmacy’s] unprecedented workforce pressures”, Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS) stressed yesterday (August 31).

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