Workforce and skill mix

The group has undertaken the most extensive range of studies into the pharmacy workforce in the UK, a major factor in prompting the establishment of the Workforce Academy within the School. Three censuses of the British pharmacist workforce have been undertaken resulting in a number of papers in the Pharmaceutical Journal. Further work has been conducted on the substantial body of 'locum' pharmacists in the UK, on pharmacy support staff and skill mix issues in community pharmacy, and the latest study is a five-year longitudinal study on the early careers of pharmacy students who graduated in 2006.