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C+D's Counter View 2025 - What do YOU think?

We're going to start off with something that everyone secretly wants to know, but isn't allowed to ask. How much do you earn?
1.What is your current annual salary band (before tax)?
2.What is your current role?
3.Where do you primarily work?
4.What is your gender?
5.Do you believe there is a gender pay gap?
6.Please offer your thoughts and experiences on how and why
7.Are you satisfied with your current salary?
8.Please offer some thoughts on why
Now ten issues to tackle - please feel free to elaborate in the text field.
9.Patient Safety
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
Patient safety is a concern
Training is at an appropriate level
I feel we are fully staffed at all times
10.Patient safety - your thoughts on strengths and weak spots
11.Funding
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
Funding is at an appropriate level
Funding is a constant concern
Funding arrangements need a complete rethink
Funding leverage should be created by threatening to withdraw services from Pharmacy First
12.Funding - your thoughts
13.Cannabis
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
Medical cannabis presents no new issues for pharmacy
I don't think it should be part of community pharmacy
Medical cannabis is a good service for patients
There is no useful or material distinction to be made between cannabis and medical cannabis, and dispensing it will lead to the proliferation of cannabis in UK society
14.Cannabis - your thoughts
15.Prescribing
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Graduates are ready to prescribe
Enough supervision exists
Community pharmacy is ready for prescribing
16.Prescribing - your thoughts
17.AI and Automation
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
AI can be trusted across my daily routines behind the counter
AI remains too error-prone for clinical deployment in community pharmacy
Automated warehouses improve error rates in dispensing overall
'Amazon-style' collection lockers outside pharmacies are excellent
18.AI and automation - your thoughts
19.Online pharmacies
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Online pharmacy is beneficial for community pharmacy
Online pharmacy is beneficial for patients
Regulation of online pharmacy is effective
20.Online pharmacy - your thoughts
21.Weight loss jabs
Totally agree
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Totally disagree
Weight loss jabs are a good thing
Pandora's box is open and UK availability of weight loss jabs is now impossible to regulate effectively
Existing prescribing and dispensing criteria is safe
Community pharmacy should be the home of weight loss jabs
22.Weight Loss Jabs - your thoughts
23.GPs
Disagree
Neither Agree nor Disagree
Agree
My relationship with GPs is useful and productive
I can read/write a patients GP notes (use GP Connect)
The BMA should be more positive about Pharmacy First
24.GPs - your thoughts
25.Aesthetics
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neither Agree nor Disagree
Agree
Strongly Agree
Aesthetics in community pharmacy presents no issues
It needs regulating
Aesthetics is currently unsafe as an industry in the UK
26.Aesthetics - your thoughts
27.Services
Disagree
Neither Agree nor Disagree
Agree
Pharmacy First is working well
Pharmacy First should be expanded
Services are the future of community pharmacy
I'm reticent about Pharmacy First because of the costs associated with offering it
28.If you could lose any services from Pharmacy First, which would they be and why?
29.Services - your thoughts
Some final thoughts!
30.Do you believe community pharmacy is currently on a sustainable trajectory?
31.Your thoughts on why
32.What one change would make the biggest positive difference to community pharmacy right now?
33.If you would like the chance to win a pharmacy-related present as a thank you for your time, please enter your email address and you will be contacted if you are pulled out of the hat:
This survey is open between Friday 21 November 2025 and Friday 23 January 2026, using the SurveyMonkey tool. Thank you for taking part! Responses are anonymous. Readers will be encouraged to participate through C+D platforms, and a pharmacy-related prize draw will take place once the survey has closed, with thank you gifts sent to a randomly chosen selection of successful participants. This is an unweighted survey designed to take a snapshot of sentiment and gather the thoughts of UK community pharmacy at this time.