B.C. will add 128 new medical school seats and allow pharmacists to renew and prescribe some medications as part of a long list of measures to tackle the labour shortage in health care.
By the spring of next year — after a series of consultations — pharmacists will be able to prescribe medications to patients without a family doctor who have less-acute ailments such as allergies, indigestion, urinary tract infections and acne, and for those seeking contraception. Bawa says seniors in desperate need of a prescription renewal are becoming commonplace at his pharmacy. Many prescriptions need to be renewed by a physician every six months, but an estimated one million people in B.C. and as many as 100,000 in southern Vancouver Island don’t have a family doctor.
A second medical school in Surrey is also under development. The province has provided $1.5 million to Simon Fraser University to help establish the school. For other first responders, it means additional diagnostic testing, such as blood-pressure and blood-glucose monitoring, administering epinephrine when needed for life-threatening allergic reactions, and supporting preparation of patients for transport by paramedics.
My Pharmacists know more about good & bad & appropriate drugs than my doctor does. It is their specialty. Same thing in Ethiopia. Go to the local druggist first. Ours was Harvard educated and she was amazing.
More students to graduate and leave the province to make a fair wage!
Pharmacists are busy too. We all need power to write our own prescriptions.
It's about time!
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