The following are some of the organisations that the PDA works with:
Fawcett Society
The Fawcett Society is the UK’s leading membership charity campaigning for gender equality and women’s rights at work, at home, and in public life. The Fawcett Society has been advancing women’s equality since 1866 when at just 19 years of age, Millicent Fawcett collected signatures on a petition for women’s votes. She went on to lead the constitutional suffrage campaign and made this cause her lifetime’s work, securing equal voting rights 62 years later.
The Fawcett Society’s vision is of a society in which “women and girls in all their diversity are equal and truly free to fulfill their potential creating a stronger, happier, better future for us all.”
NAWP (The National Association of Women Pharmacists) was founded in 1905 and has been a part of PDA since 2020 as its first Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Network. NAWP has a mission to “enable all women pharmacists to realise their full potential and raise their profile by being educationally, socially, and politically active.”
The PDA NAWP Network is a member of the Fawcett Society.
Read more about the Fawcett Society here.
Prescription Charges Coalition
Pharmacists see first-hand the impact of patients unable to afford their medication. Prescription charges have been removed for patients in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, but continue in England.
The Prescription Charges Coalition is a group of 52 organisations calling on the Westminster government to scrap prescription charges for people with long-term conditions in England
The PDA is a member of the coalition.
Read more about the prescription charges coalition here.
PDA becomes a supporter of Health Equals
Health Equals focuses on the need to rebuild foundations that impact everyone’s health and wellbeing, from quality homes, stable jobs, social connections and neighbourhoods with green spaces and clean air. However, it is said that currently in the UK, lives are being cut short by up to 16 years due to these foundations not being available to all members of society in the same way.
The PDA is an official supporter of Health Equals, which is a coalition of over 100 organisations that want to make a positive difference to UK society’s health and wellbeing.
Read more about Health Equals here.