Proposals to make DPP 'routine' job responsibility are 'troubling', warns PDA

The union has raised concerns about a report’s “suggestion” to include designated prescribing practitioner (DPP) responsibilities in pharmacists’ job descriptions. 

Trainee pharmacist
Becoming a DPP "must be in the right conditions with fair remuneration and should not be compulsory”
Kate Bowie

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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