Our Board Chair, Mona Kwong, reflects on the impacts stigma has on patient safety and what we as pharmacy professionals can do to reduce its harmful effects.
As we celebrate Pharmacy Awareness Month through March, the BC Branch of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists would like to highlight the important and diverse roles pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who work in hospitals, clinics and across health authorities in British Columbia play in ensuring patient safety and improving health outcomes.
The scope of nurse practitioners (NP) was recently expanded to include prescribing opioid agonist treatment (OAT) drugs. This change is part of province-wide efforts to address the opioid overdose crisis and builds on NPs’ existing authority to prescribe controlled drugs and substances.
In order to practice as a pharmacist or a pharmacy technician in BC, a person must be registered as a registrant of the College of Pharmacists of BC...
One of the key changes in the amendments to the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act involves shifting responsibilities from the pharmacy manager to the direct owner for renewing a pharmacy licence.
The College is now recruiting volunteers to serve on its committees!
We encourage registrants and members of the public interested in contributing to BC's public health system to join one of the College's committees.
In British Columbia, the Employment Standards Act (the Act) sets minimum standards for wages and working conditions in most workplaces. The Act applies to all non-union employees under provincial jurisdiction except those who are excluded by regulation.
PharmaNet, which is administered by the Ministry of Health, is a secure province-wide network that links all British Columbia pharmacies to a central data system. All prescriptions dispensed at community pharmacies in BC are entered into PharmaNet.
Happy New Year! I have a pretty good feeling about 2018. As you know, 2017 was an eventful year that, in many ways, set the stage for more of the same this year.
Key changes in the amendments to the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act include shifting the responsibilities of applying for a new pharmacy licence, renewing a pharmacy licence, and submitting changes of pharmacy licensure information from the manager to the direct owner.
Under the amendments to the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act, Authorized Representatives are individuals who are permitted to represent the pharmacy’s direct owner in the collection and submission of any and all information required to complete both the pharmacy licence application and renewal processes through the College’s eServices site.