By all measures, 2018 has gotten off to a tough start for community pharmacy. The new generic drug pricing agreement developed jointly by the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance and Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association cuts deep, and it…
If a physician has authorized frequent dispensing via a verbal prescription or faxed refill authorization, how do I document it in compliance with PharmaCare requirements?
Verbal prescriptions must be documented at the time of dispensing.…
BC Pharmacy Association members elected three representatives to the Board of Directors on April 16, 2018. Congratulations to two returning Board members, John Forster-Coull and Chris Waller, and new Board member Michael Huitema of Shoppers Drug…
For almost seven years, Irvin Tang has been based in northern B.C. as associate at the Shoppers Drug Mart located in downtown Fort St. John. Little did Tang know that his career calling would be in pharmacy, let alone in a small oil and gas town of…
UBC pharmacy student and BCPhA member Boris Trinajstic will participate in the 2018 RBC GranFondo Whistler race, raising funds in honour of Diabetes Canada.
In what has been a turbulent year for community pharmacy, with price cuts, opioid epidemics and general anxiety over the future feasibility of the industry, I think at the end of the day we can all agree on what makes every…
