Medication Management

The province is the eleventh Canadian jurisdiction to implement a biosimilar switching program; only Manitoba and Nunavut don’t have one. 

Specialty medications treat chronic, complex, rare or genetic conditions. They are revolutionizing treatments and may even be a cure for debilitating diseases such as cancer, hepatis C and autoimmune disorders. And they are complicated. And costly.

Some pharmacy staffers believe that all relief pharmacists are lazy and incompetent. I’m here to tell you that is absolutely not the case!

Take our weekly doctor poll. See what your colleagues say.

The death review panel report said about 225,000 people in B.C. use unregulated substances but fewer than 5,000 people a month have prescriptions to receive safe-supply drugs.

The institute’s healthcare spending data includes money spent by the public sector, private sector and money paid by individuals.

Pharmacy technicians are the heartbeat of any pharmacy operation. Exceptional RPhTs deserve to be recognized—why not nominate someone, or enter yourself for a Pharmacy Practice+Business Award?

Dan Williams, the minister of mental health and addiction, said the proposed changes aim to strengthen the province’s position in current class actions to recover opioid-related healthcare costs and other damages.