Monday, March 22, 2010

College of Pharmacists of British Columbia Propose Bylaw Changes Involving Telepharmacy Rules

Earlier this month, the BC College of Pharmacists proposed some amendments to the Bylaws of the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act (PODSA, which is Current law in the Canadian province of British Columbia). Among the changes (in yellow) are adjustments from "Pharmacist" to "Full Pharmacist," rules for managers of "Central pharmacy sites" and quite a few responsibility shifts. Here are the current bylaws for comparison.

Thanks to a reader for pointing this out.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't get 3(1)(b). "a hospital pharmacy" was added to the current list. Was that done to clairfly that the rules apply to full pharmacists working in a hospital environment that has multiple physical locations within the main hospital as well as those that oversee remote locations, etc?

Anonymous said...

In part 4 (8) , the college of BC specifies that the remote dispensing site must include a pharmacy technician. It is either the College has never heard of a kiosk such as Pharma Trust or does not quite like the idea of Telepharmacy without the presence of a tech .