This article reviews the requirements for counselling and will shed some light on situations where Compliance Officers have observed gaps in the provision of patient counselling in both community and hospital settings. The relevant bylaw requirements for counselling in community and hospital settings are outlined below
BC Health Regulators (BCHR) welcomes the In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care report, which outlines the findings and recommendations from the Addressing Racism: An Independent Investigation into Indigenous-specific Racism in BC Health Care led by Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond.
Beginning December 1, 2020, all newly registered pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who require access to PharmaNet to provide health services to individuals within pharmacy practice settings must enrol in PRIME.
If you are planning to submit your continuing education, or complete your registration or pharmacy license renewal over the holidays, make sure you are prepared.
As BC continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers across the province have implemented varying systems in order to accommodate the delivery of the seasonal influenza vaccine.
In January 2020, College Staff, as part of the British Columbia Health Regulators Cultural Safety Task Force, took part in the First Nations Health Authorities’ (FNHA) Tenth Annual Gathering Wisdom Forum (GWX).
In addition to providing hand-out materials to event attendees, the task force collected responses to different questions, each focused on cultural safety in BC’s healthcare settings.
A practitioner’s signature is an important component of a prescription that assists registrants in determining the authenticity of a prescription. With electronic prescribing software becoming more commonplace, registrants are seeing an increase in electronically generated prescriptions and oftentimes, these are signed with electronic signatures. As registrants may be more accustomed to receiving prescriptions that are signed pen-to-paper, there have been some questions around the acceptability of this practice. In this article, we hope to provide some clarity on the requirements around electronic signatures.
While BC continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important that our province’s health professionals recognize that this is not our only health crisis.
The opioid overdose crisis continues to have a major impact on the province. Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared a public health emergency in March 2020, the BC Coroners Services has detected a sustained increase of illicit drug toxicity deaths, recording six consecutive months with over 100 overdose deaths, three of which saw more than 170 deaths.
September 30th has been declared Orange Shirt Day, in recognition of the harm the residential school system has left on generations of indigenous families and their communities.
“Selling Health” – share your insights on being both a health care provider and retailer
On August 27, 2020 BC Health Minister Adrian Dix announced the release of a report outlining final recommendations for changes to the province’s health profession regulatory system.