Pharmacy Business

Rethinking career fulfilment in pharmacy: the case for a portfolio career
Can we still be pharmacists if we’re also artists, entrepreneurs or educators?
Walmart Canada sees ‘very positive’ feedback for pharmacy clinics as company eyes expansion
Nearly two months after Walmart launched its first pharmacy clinic in Canada, the retail giant says it has received ‘very positive’ feedback from patients and is carefully monitoring the further expansion of pharmacists’ scope of practice.

OCP delivers update on addressing corporate pressures

The Ontario College of Pharmacists says it has launched 79 investigations relating to corporate pressures since last October.
How many asymptomatic STI cases are sneaking under the radar?

In a pilot study where four Nova Scotia community pharmacies were allowed to offer self-testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea, test positivity rates were three-to-seven times higher than expected.
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.