Pharmacy Business

“Valuing [our remuneration] is really important to keep pharmacies sustainable," says Shelita Dattani, senior vice president of pharmacy affairs at the Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada.

Often when things get challenging, our default is to fall into complaining and negativity. While that might feel satisfying for a moment, it serves no one and can drag down the morale of everyone around us.

Leadership skills can be learned. These are skills that anyone and everyone can learn and should learn! These are skills that can reduce or eliminate the problems we face every day in our pharmacy lives. But for the most part we are left to learn the lessons on our own. As a result, we find ourselves playing in a game where we do not know the rules, and we become frustrated.

Thinking about pharmacy as the balance of taxi and Uber allows the big shifts to organically happen over time. It allows us to maintain the past and build the future while handholding the customer through the changes that affect their pharmacy visit experience.

Dr. John Crosby asserts that there is more than enough work for every healthcare professional in Canada and that a little competition never hurt anyone.

We are living in a time when health disparities loom large. Community pharmacies have a unique opportunity to serve as pillars of wellness, equity and social innovation.

Dr. Sohail Gandhi argues the act should allow deductibles because without them you take away the responsibility for using a service properly.

‘Pharmacists are well-positioned to act as environmental stewards and help mitigate the environmental harms associated with our health-care system,’ the CPhA says.