MARCH 31, 2025 - RENEWAL DEADLINEReadLinks Guest Posts are intended to expose the public and pharmacy professionals to a diverse range of knowledge, and expertise, with the goal of expanding awareness of issues related to public safety and pharmacy practice. While the College enforces strict Guest Post Submission Guidelines, the views and opinions expressed in these articles are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official standards or positions of the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.
Everyone wants our health care system to provide good quality services, at the right time and place. Patients, like health care providers, have a vested interest in improving health care services, both as an end user and taxpayer. Engaging those patients to work alongside health care providers to improve the system is called “Patient Engagement”.
Pharmacists sometimes ask what they can do to improve their work with First Nations clients. This is an excellent question given the changing climate of the pharmacy profession. As our scope of practice continues to expand, we have an opportunity to be active participants in the decolonization of health services for First Nations people.
On November 4, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC) celebrated its 70th anniversary. As I sit at my desk writing this guest post, I can scarcely begin to imagine what it was like for the 64 students that made up the very first pharmacy class at UBC...
Read this Guest Post by Barbara Gobis on UBC's Pharmacists Clinic and the practice tools and resources developed for pharmacists, by pharmacists that are now available from the clinic.
While perusing Facebook, I was intrigued to find I was tagged in a video of a pharmacy colleague doing push-ups in his garage.
Read this Guest Post by CRNBC's Deputy Registrar Christine Penney on how BC health profession regulators have been busy responding to big social change for all Canadians: medical assistance in dying.
Over 213,000 British Columbians age 40 or older took glucose lowering drugs other than insulin during 2015. Of these, 44% took at least two drugs to lower blood sugar.
Read the 100th issue of the UBC Therapeutics Letter on questioning the basis of approval for non-insulin glucose lowering drugs.
Read this guest post from former Board member and PTSBC Director Bal Dhillon.
Read the guest post by CRNBC Registrar Cynthia Johansen.
Read the guest post by the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council.