April 2022 Board Meeting Highlights
The highlights from the April Board Meeting are now available.
Health Canada’s Office of Controlled Substances fax line for controlled substance and precursor Loss or Theft Reports has been decommissioned.
The Provincial Health Officer (PHO) has now publicly posted Mask Use and Infection Prevention & Control Guidance for Health Professionals – April 1, 2022. The letter provides current guidance for mask use and infection prevention and control for health professionals and their patients.
As of Friday April 15, 2022, amendments to the Drug Administration by Injection and Intranasal Route Standards, Limits and Conditions to lower the age limit for drug administration by injection to patients 4 years of age are in effect.
This means that pharmacists in British Columbia with valid injection certification may now administer immunizations by injection to children as young as...