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.
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.
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.
