News

January 14, 2020

Job Opportunity: Investigator

The College has a temporary job opportunity in its Complaints & Investigations Department.

January 2, 2020

Amendments to the Drug Schedules Regulation (DSR) under the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act (PODSA), moving certain Schedule I codeine containing liquid preparations to Schedule IA, are now in effect.

December 3, 2019
SCHEDULED DISCIPLINE HEARINGS

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

November 27, 2019

Planned Maintenance to eServices and Related Services - December 4

Required maintenance work to the College’s IT systems supporting eServices will take place on Wednesday, December 4 from 6:00PM to 11:00PM.

November 15, 2019

The highlights from the November Board Meeting are now available.

Topics include initial Continuing Education audits, pharmacy prescribing authority update, PODSA modernization phase II bylaw amendments and Professional Practice Policies, pharmacists' injecting authority update and more. 

October 31, 2019

Both the College and the BC Pharmacy Association have received some concerns that the vial for the paralyzing agent rocuronium bromide (DIN 02318415) is visually very similar to the vial for the Fluviral influenza vaccine.

October 30, 2019

As recently approved by the Board, the College filed amendments to the Fee Schedules under the HPA Bylaws and PODSA Bylaws, with the Ministry of Health, in accordance with the College’s 2019/2020 budget. These fee increases were initially approved at the February 2019 meeting as part of the College’s...

October 25, 2019

We Want to Hear from You: How’s Our Service?

From October 25 - November 22, take the College’s Customer Satisfaction Survey and help us continue to improve our service standards!

October 16, 2019

Health Canada and Pfizer warn that some EpiPen and EpiPen Jr auto-injector devices may not slide out of their carrier tube easily, or at all.

October 7, 2019

The College would like to thank pharmacists in the Metropolitan Vancouver (District 1), Vancouver Island/Coastal (District 3), Northern BC (District 5), and Community Hospitals (District 7) that voted in the 2019 Board elections.

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