Pharmacy Trends

A recent CSHP webinar showed how hospitals can use national data to plan staffing and better understand rising drug costs, including an 85% increase in critical care spending per admission.

How pharmacist Yolanda Yeung helped build a community pharmacy model that literally cares for patients where they live.

From HIV prevention to dispensing medical cannabis, five pharmacy practices that may surprise Canadian pharmacists.

‘I have always wondered why pharmacists take so long to fill a prescription.’

Two community pharmacies are set to offer skin cancer detection clinics as part of a study on how to improve patient care in dermatology.

While the Ontario College of Pharmacists can't speak with certainty as to what drive the increase, one pharmacy lawyer says expanding scope of practice may be creating more opportunities for patient complaints (but not necessarily signalling a decline in care)

With approved training, pharmacy and intern technicians can now administer all Schedule 3 vaccines.

As I reflected on the new new Pharmacy Funding Framework agreement, I found myself thinking about a different challenge.

Are we unconsciously more invested in feeling smart than in being effective? Rather than blaming system failures (which we are good at), we must evaluate psychological patterns that are limiting our impact.

B.C. pharmacist Rami Safi says years of working with marginalized patients pushed him to rethink what it means to care for someone in a pharmacy.