The Pharmacists' Defence Association

The PDA (Pharmacists’ Defence Association) is the largest pharmacists’ membership organisation and the only independent trade union exclusively for pharmacists in the UK. The PDA exists to:
- Advance and protect good health by promoting proper standards and best practice in pharmacy
- Support the safe and effective practice of pharmacists at every stage of their education and career
- Provide lead

ership and representation for employed and self-employed pharmacists, and those in training
- Protect, defend, lobby for and support the interests and reputations of pharmacists
- Work with and support local, national and international organisations with similar objectives
- Facilitate professional indemnity insurance, arrange benefits and undertake any other activities that can support our wider objectives. The PDA is a member of the Employed Pharmacists of the European Union (EPhEU), International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), and the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC). The PDA includes the National Association of Women Pharmacists (founded in 1905), the LGBT+ Pharmacists Network, the BAME Pharmacists Network and Ability, the network for pharmacists with disabilities. The PDA Union is affiliated to several wider groups because, just as individuals achieve more by joining together as a Trade Union, unions can achieve more by working together.