There have always been challenges confronting pharmacists, the pharmacy industry, and healthcare in Canada. Canadians consistently encounter difficulties with medication therapies, including issues with adherence, adverse effects, unmanaged polypharmacy, and suboptimal outcomes.
Premier David Eby says the province will become the first in Canada to offer online booking for residents to visit pharmacists for treatment of minor ailments.
The app allows people to talk to a pharmacist by phone or live chat, have medications delivered to their home, get personalized, pre-packaged medications, manage refills and track their medication usage.
During the pandemic and beyond, pharmacists in Canada pushed for broader scopes of practices and notably stepped up to administer hundreds of thousands of COVID vaccines. But what about other injectables?