Core Area
Practice
Strategic Area
Strategic partnerships that sustain the ongoing evolution of pharmacy in step with that in health and education systems
Goal Status
In Progress
Objectives
- Continuing Pharmacy Professional Development (CPPD) to continue to develop new programs. Highlights include Minor Ailments and Contraception Services (MACS) program funded by the BC Ministry of Health from April 2023 to April 2025; expanded injection training programs to be offered from 2024/2025; as well as other significant internal and external partners (2025).
Achieved Goals
- Launched two courses (Cultivating Relationships and Creating Safer Spaces in Pharmacy for First Nations Clients and A Case-Based Approach for Pharmacy Teams on Providing CARE for First Nations Clients) under a project focused on “Building Cultural Safety and Humility for First Nations Clients into Pharmacy Practice”, developed to help pharmacy team members learn how to address systemic anti-Indigenous racism and barriers to healthcare access in pharmacy care settings, as part of a collective effort to reduce experiences of culturally unsafe care for First Nations clients across the British Columbia healthcare system. Courses were developed in collaboration with the First Nations Health Authority and a First Nations Advisory Group. Evelyn Alec, a First Nations artist from the Penticton Indian Band, created the designs used in the courses (Sep 2023).
- CPPD and OELTD developed and implemented the College of Pharmacist of BC’s Regulatory module for Pharmacist prescribing for minor ailments and contraception (July 2023).