Associations

McKesson owns independent pharmacies I.D.A., Guardian, Remedy’sRx, The Medicine Shoppe, Uniprix and Proxim, the Rexall Pharmacy Group and Well.ca.

Pharmacy associations have a mixed response to the federal government’s funding announcement of $196 billion for health care over the next decade.

An international fund has been set up to help get needed medicines to people in both countries.

Dr. Leisha Hawker, president of Doctors Nova Scotia, says improving the primary care clinic structure will help attract new physicians to a province where 130,000 residents are without a family doctor.

The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), has appointed Thomas Digby as its new chair. 

The Progressive Contractors Association of Canada, which represents more than 25,000 construction workers, alleges the labour agreement is restrictive and decreases the number of eligible workers.

The module was developed in collaboration with 16 provincial health regulatory colleges to support awareness and knowledge of health inequity.

The meeting was a chance to introduce the IPPC and discuss Indigenous representation in pharmacy, strategies to improve Indigenous health, and anti-Indigenous racism in pharmacy.