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- 9/22/2024
Advocacy Leader in Pharmacy Joelle Walker: ‘Advocacy is not a linear path and can take a lot of time.’
Although when I started my journey in pharmacy, I had a pretty extensive health background, I knew nothing about pharmacy. The lack of knowledge about pharmacy and what pharmacists do remains one of the biggest challenges that we’re constantly working to overcome. - 8/26/2024
Advocacy Leader in Pharmacy Sheena Deane: ‘In the future I see pharmacies run by technicians.’
First, pharmacists need expansion of their scope so they can run the clinic portion and leave the dispensing to the RPhT. I believe we need to ensure the public is aware of the abilities of both pharmacy professionals, allowing the changes to be accomplished. - 8/19/2024
Advocacy Leader in Pharmacy Ryan Forrey: ‘…storytelling is key to successful advocacy.’
In my experience with advocacy, I have found that often policy makers have a limited understanding of how the intended and unintended consequences will impact patient care. Concepts, rules, policies, and procedures developed in a theoretical sense, without practical input, can be ineffective at best and more often detrimental. - 8/19/2024
What is the real purpose of your pharmacy business?
Any business that successfully creates and keeps a customer in a cost-effective way will make a profit. If for any reason, a business fails to attract new and sustain a certain number of customers, it will experience losses. And too many losses will eventually lead to business failure. It should go without saying that an important part of your pharmacy’s business strategy is to make money, but making money shouldn't be the sole purpose of your business. - 8/12/2024
Advocacy Leader of the Week Sandra Hanna: ‘Every single one of us is an advocate’
I think we are already seeing a clear vision of where pharmacy practice is going. With Canadians visiting their pharmacists up to 10 times more frequently than any other healthcare provider, and with a growing shortage of primary care practitioners due to retirements and fewer new practitioners entering the field, we can expect to see pharmacies continue to own their place as community health hubs. - 8/5/2024
Advocacy Leader in Pharmacy Warren Meek: ‘There was a time when I thought I knew everything!’
There is a time and a place for independence but also a time and a place for a functional team. I have been blessed to be thoroughly engaged in my practice, but also well engaged in the profession in many aspects. You can be a great pharmacist in your practice site in your community. But you can also share your talents within the profession and beyond. - 8/5/2024
The consequences of air pollution and what you can do
As wildfires become a more common threat worldwide, understanding the impact of air pollution and wildfire smoke on our health is crucial. In this 3 minute clip, Dr. Peter Lin, MD, sheds light on this issue. - 7/21/2024
Advocacy Leader in Pharmacy Luna El Birzi: ‘I aspired to be a humanitarian pharmacist’
Many stakeholders remain reluctant to embrace new roles for pharmacists. Despite this, I remain committed to advocating for the expanded role of pharmacists in healthcare, confident that continued education and collaboration will eventually lead to broader acceptance and integration. - 7/8/2024
Advocacy Leader in Pharmacy Lars-Åke Söderlund, Part 2: Balancing different stakeholders
The personal qualities and experiences that have been most instrumental in my success as an advocacy leader revolve around a deep passion for healthcare and for patients, a commitment to lifelong learning, and a genuine desire to make a difference (community pharmacy perceived as a positive force in our societies). - 7/4/2024
Advocacy Leader in Pharmacy Lars-Åke Söderlund, Part 1: ‘I want community pharmacy to be perceived as a positive force in our society.’
I think the pharmacy profession chose me as much as I chose to be a pharmacist. As I have always been interested in healthcare and patients, I think I also – as a young pharmacist – saw where and how pharmacy could make a difference for our healthcare systems, and in peoples’ lives.