Summer 2024 — Explore Articles

In each edition of The Tablet, we ask contributors appearing in the edition a question about a topic important to the pharmacy profession in British Columbia.

In the Summer 2024 edition, we asked: How receptive do you think…

BC Centre on Substance Use

By Mona Kwong, Pharmacy Advisor and Director, Interdisciplinary Clinical Addiction Fellowship Program — Pharmacy Stream and  Kevin Hollett, Director,…

By Michael Mui Communications Manager, BCPhA

As you are reading this, British Columbians are getting ready to go to the polls to elect a new government on Oct. 19, 2024.

For community pharmacists, a great deal has been accomplished in this last term. Of course, it was marked with…

The last few years has seen our profession expand to greater heights and opportunities to practice than at any previous point in our modern history. It was not long ago that pharmacists were seen as only dispensers of medications, a role that we…

What pharmacies can do to help make 2SLGBTQ+ patients welcome.

By Tarek Hussein, MBA, BScPhm, RPh, C.Mgr., LSSGB, DTM

While the health care sector is essential to global well-being, unfortunately, it has a significant environmental footprint. To put this into perspective, the…

Effective Aug. 30, 2024: Pharmacists will be designated as “referring practitioners” of laboratory tests for the purpose of medication management.

List of labs that can be ordered by pharmacists in community settings:

By Hafeez Dossa, BSc  |  Peer Reviewed by Dr. Jessica Otte, MD, CCFP, FCFP

By Ishika Jain, Communications Coordinator, BCPhA