Showing posts with label pharmacist prescribing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pharmacist prescribing. Show all posts
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Local pharmacist now able to alter, refill prescriptions, immunize

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From the Sackville (NB) Tribune Post: Local residents can now have their prescriptions refilled easier, thanks to changes that went into eff...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Pharmacy frustration

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From the St. John's (NL) Telegram: It's happened to Burin Peninsula resident Madeline Broydell and many others with chronic illnesse...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

Nurses and pharmacists to be given off-label prescribing rights

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From Pulse (UK): Exclusive: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is planning a controversial change in the law to allow n...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Shoppers Drug Mart may get lift from prescription legislation

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From the Financial Post: Could changes to the dispensing powers of pharmacists be a boon for Shoppers Drug Mart Ltd.? Analyst Robert Gibson ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Ont. health-care professionals to get new powers under government bill

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From the Canadian Press: Ontario wants to broaden the scope of practice for many health-care professionals as part of a strategy to address ...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Health-care workers to get broader powers

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From the Toronto Star: Ontario is about to move ahead with plans to allow pharmacists, nurse practitioners and other health-care professiona...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Pharmacists look for more control

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From the Sudbury (Ont.) Star: It's a scenario that has happened to many people. You forgot your prescription was running low, there are ...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Pharmacists want power to renew prescriptions

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From the Windsor (Ont.) Star: Giving pharmacists authority to fill some prescriptions without a doctor’s order would help patients in our ph...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Let pharmacists prescribe: advisory council

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From the Sault (ON) Star: Pharmacists will play a larger role in the delivery of health care, including being able to write some prescriptio...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Pharmacists seek expanded role

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From the London (Ont.) Free Press: Expanding the role of pharmacists to include prescribing medications for some ailments will give Ontarian...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Pharmacists now allowed to renew prescriptions

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From Surrey (BC) Now: Patients who run out of routine medications can now ask their pharmacist to renew their prescriptions without always h...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Pharmacists take on expanded role starting January

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From Arrow Lakes (BC) News: As part of a new agreement between the government of B.C. and the B.C. Pharmacy Association, pharmacists will be...
Thursday, December 04, 2008

Drugs, drugs, drugs

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From the Kawartha Lakes (Ont.) This Week: As a third generation pharmacist, Marc Scanlon has seen the profession evolve since his grandfathe...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Pharmacists shouldn't prescribe smoking drugs: critics

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From the Globe and Mail: Smokers looking to kick the habit might chew nicotine gum or wear a patch sold over the counter in drug stores acro...

Pharmacists eye greater responsibilities

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From the Midland (Ont.) Mirror: Ontario pharmacists could soon be able to fill and write prescriptions for minor sicknesses without a doctor...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

A new remedy for medicine

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From the Ottawa Citizen: You walk into a drug store to get your prescription renewed. It's a drug you've taken for years and you are...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Skip the doctor's office, go right to the drugstore

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I shudder when I read the first paragraph of this article. While I am in favour of pharmacist prescribing, we have to remember the differen...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

P.E.I. pharmacists to be able to prescribe

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I missed posting some articles while I took a break. I will attempt to catch up over the weekend. This one might have been one of the most...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Let us renew meds, save cash: N.L. pharmacists

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From CBC News: Pharmacists in Newfoundland and Labrador are asking the provincial government for authority to extend drug prescriptions, on ...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Just what the druggist ordered

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From the Saint John (NB) Telegraph Journal: It's about to become much easier for New Brunswickers to get the medications they need witho...