Pharmacy Business

Staying healthy through diversification

Right now, all roads regarding scope of practice and regulatory issues for Manitoba pharmacists are travelling the path to implementation of Bill 41.

A singularly Quebec approach to business

Snowdon Pharmacy, a pillar of frontline health care in downtown Toronto for over a century, recently underwent a $300,000 renovation to pave the way for an expanded scope of practice.

After two years of disputes, the Quebec Order of Pharmacists, the Quebec College of Physicians and the Quebec Order of Nurses are on the brink of agreement on the issue of initiating and adjusting medication from a collective prescription.

So far, 2010 in Ontario has been all abuzz about drug system reform: How deep will it cut and how will pharmacy adapt to survive. But there’s been plenty of other activity in the province as well, some quite positive.