The supplier of Medisca’s Chlorhexidine Gluconate Solution BP (20%), Lots: 56407/A, 56407/B and 56407/C has issued a recall due to the product being contam...
As of August 20, 2014, all international pharmacy graduates (IPGs) who wish to obtain a licence to practice pharmacy in Alberta will follow a new procedure.* The term IPGs refers to pharmacists who have obtained their pharmacy education outside of...
Community pharmacies DO NOT need an agreement with AHS to participate in the provincial influenza immunization program.
This, and other process changes fo...
Restricted titles, set out in Section 15 of the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Profession Regulation, indicate that individuals have specific levels of education, skill, and role definitions. Use of the titles by unqualified individuals misleads colleagues and the public, and diminishes the work done by those le...
Alberta Health’s Influenza Immunization Policy 2014-2015 is now available.
Participants must:
Mupirocin ointment and cream are Schedule 1 in Alberta and require a prescription.
Mupirocin ointment and cream were placed in Schedule 1 by NAPRA, based on a September 1999 recommendation of the National Drug Scheduling Advisory Committee.
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ACP is circulating national draft Model St...
U of A Pharmacy alumni are invited to celebrate the faculty’s centennial on Sept.20. You can:
Brunch with colleagues and classmates
Tour the newly renovated facilities
Marvel at the display and timeline
On July 25, the BC Supreme Court ruled that the bylaws passed by the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia prohibiting incentives provided for prescriptions and pharmacy services be struck down.
The hearing at which will ACP will defend its changes to our Standards and Code of Ethics which prohibit inducements is set for Jan. 15, 2015.
...A pharmacist or a pharmacy technician who engages in dispensing must ensure that their dispensing activities are recorded in a clear audit trail (Standard 7.16, Standards of Practice for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians).
Creating an audit trail need not be an onerous process. Any method that allows identifica...
In the July 22 edition of The Link, we informed you that Health Canada approved electronic storage of written prescriptions. We have had several qu...
Podiatric physicians (also referred to as podiatrists) were added to Alberta’s TPP program in January 2013. [ACP was just notified on July 29; we apologize for not notifying pharmacists sooner.]
Podiatric physicians may prescribe:
