Pharmacy Business

Pharmacist creates novel tool to catch billing errors in real-time
Application was developed to address costly audits due to preventable mistakes.
The pharmacist can see you now
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.

‘Misrepresents certain facts’: Neighbourhood Pharmacies reacts to Alberta’s new COVID-19 vaccine policy

The pharmacy organization is urging the province to reverse its decision.
Study scopes out whether pharmacists could acceptably provide STI services

Review of more than 20 international studies examined experiences with pharmacists providing services related to sexually transmitted infections.
Quebec pharmacists launch first ‘day without replacements’

Calling it an ‘intolerable’ situation, the AQPP is drawing attention to the growing stranglehold of replacement agencies on the pharmacy workforce.
‘Signs of being ungovernable’: Alberta pharmacist loses license for diverting Adderall and hypnotics, then ghosting investigators

Pharmacist Michael Tweedy is facing a $10,000 fine and the cancellation of his registration after the college’s tribunal found him to have engaged in ‘dishonest, deceptive’ conduct.
Minor ailment claims in Ontario disproportionality coming from corporate-owned and urban pharmacies

A new study has found that found that corporate-owned pharmacies represented close to two-thirds of minor ailment services claims. In addition, the vast majority of the claims were from pharmacies in urban areas.
Beyond the numbers: The heart of pharmacy

Our first responsibility is to our patients, to ensure that they get the best care, free from arbitrary targets.
Alberta to increase drug co-pay by $10 over a 10-month period

This is the first time the province has done so since 1994.
Spotlight on Neil MacKinnon

Pharmacy professor from Nova Scotia now leading one of America's public universities.