Pharmacy Business

Helping patients understand why and how things work as well as supporting them through the reimbursement process can provide relief for those with many concerns and result in possible coverage of necessary medications.

For at least the last 30 years, long-term pharmacy service has operated under a central distribution model, structured on transactional compensation for pharmacy service providers.

I have seen a change in the ‘traditional role’ of the pharmacist, an appetite for pharmacists to expand into new roles and be increasingly recognised as integral members of the primary care team.

A growing body of research is demonstrating that therapeutic carbohydrate restriction, one form of Therapeutic Nutrition, can improve metabolic function and even put type 2 diabetes into remission.

Ontario announced this week that effective August 18, COVID-19 vaccines will be made available to kids who are 11 but turning 12 this year. But pharmacists were left hanging as they waited for an executive order authorizing this change.

Pharmacists will be on hand in Walmart stores on August 19 to answer questions about COVID-19 vaccines.

When the Pharmacy Association of Nova Scotia reached out to members in March asking who would be interested in administering COVID-19 vaccines, Graham MacKenzie, pharmacist-owner of Stone’s Pharmasave in Baddeck, stepped up.

A study by researchers from the University of New Brunswick posits that if the province allowed pharmacists to give two types of vaccine that they do now, it would save doctors enough time to see almost 3,000 more patients.