Nearly two months after Walmart launched its first pharmacy clinic in Canada, the retail giant says it has received ‘very positive’ feedback from patients and is carefully monitoring the further expansion of pharmacists’ scope of practice.
In a pilot study where four Nova Scotia community pharmacies were allowed to offer self-testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea, test positivity rates were three-to-seven times higher than expected.
The Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s has opened a temporary prescription pickup and vaccination depot at its municipal office following the sudden closure of the community’s only pharmacy, Shoppers Drug Mart, on June 20.
Incorporating technicians into your chronic disease management workflow can increase their job satisfaction and relieve some of the technical burden that pharmacists can face.
Walking into Trinity Bellwoods Pharmacy in downtown Toronto you can’t help but be drawn to the pharmacist-led walk-in clinic, the first in Ontario for the Guardian banner.
