CEO'S MESSAGE/NEW MEMBERS
The BCPhA has clearly communicated to the Minister of Health that we do not support such conduct.
Welcome to the newest members of the BCPhA!
We think there are some concrete steps that should be taken to ensure the government and public can continue to have confidence in the role community pharmacy plays in delivering this program to some of our province’s most vulnerable patients. In our view the current MMT training program for dispensing pharmacists is inadequate. We believe that the training should be significantly more vigorous than it is now and should include a system that ensures training has been successfully completed. We don’t think the current “self reporting” of completion of the training is adequate. Patients who are part of MMT are usually facing complex health and other issues. This supports the premise that additional training for dispensing pharmacists makes sense. We also believe there should be a regular recertification for pharmacists dispensing to MMT patients. Input needs to be gathered to determine what regularity for recertification would be appropriate. But such a program would help to ensure high practice standards would be maintained. And we believe the BCPhA should be tasked with the job of developing and delivering the training program. Our track record in injection training shows we can do this well. I believe that physicians, pharmacists, our colleges and the government need to work quickly and collaboratively to determine what steps need to be taken to ensure the MMT program is meeting the needs of the population it serves. Pharmacists and pharmacy owners have a role to play in not condoning bad behavior from their peers. If you see bad practice, call the College of Pharmacists and lodge a complaint. Community pharmacy needs to clearly show there is no support for illegal and unethical practice.
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THE TABLET
Aug/Sep 2014
Pharmacist (General) members: Christina Abdalla, Saly Antonious, Mohamed Anwar, Arvinder Bains, Olufemi Bakare, Barnabas Balint, Gargi Barot, Patricia Bobyn, Munir Boghani, Marian Botros, Nina Bredenkamp, Laura Burgess, Andrea Cartwright, Matthew Cha, Alfred Chan, ChiaChi Chen, Anthony Chiam, Kimberly Chin, Aram Cho, Elisa Cho, Karan Chohan, Jaewon Choi, Youna Choi, Edward Choice, Trevor Choo, Matthew Croucher, Alesha Cvenkel, Timothy De La Torre, Joy John Del Mundo, Lindsay Dixon, Barbara Dixson, Sameh Elbably, Ahmed Elkadry, Sawsan Elzein, Michael Faltas, Amr Farghali, Laura Farnden, Muhammad Farooq, Sanja Finci, Andrew Formosa, April Gagne, Nikhil Gandhi, Rakesh Garg, Asad Gavahi-Kashani, Laith Georgie, Christine Ghattas, Navneet Gohalwar, Kuldeesh Grewal, Lori Henderson, Jacky Huang, Shannon Huyber, Karim Ibrahim Saad, Mark Iosiphovich, Jelena Javor, Dawei Ji, Jeong Soon Jin, Ann Johnston, Hane Kang, Soonok Kang, Farah Kassam, Melissa Keith, Tessa Kenning, Bo Kyung Kim, Jieun Kim, Ryungji Kim, Wing See Kwong, Katherine Lafreniere, Mansurali Lalani, Zaahira Lalani, Stewart Lay, Anthony Le, Jenny Lee, Yi Chi Lee, Arthur Leung, Chi-On Leung, Sophie Liang, Tina Yi-Ting Lien, Li Lin, Angela Liou, Joyce Liu, Sharon Liu, Bernadine Longland, Rosalind Louie, William Lu, Michael Ma, Ammaji Malla, Sumit Manchanda, Missagh Manshadi, Elizabeth Mathew, Vismay Mehta, Ahmed Metwally, Moheb Michael, Sunae Min, Rebecca Minaker, Shady Mohamed, Edgardo Montejo, Karl Mottl, PeterMurray, Chase Nickel, Harpreet Nijjer, Sandeep Nimmagadda, Anudeep Nirval, Sarah Nuguid, Clancy O'Malley, Austin Ojala, Greg Ouellette, Clayton Palmer, Hardikkumar Parsaniya, Charmi Patel, Ikram Patel, Jaimishkumar Patel, Mubin Patel, Suketu Patel, Andrea Paterson, Taweechai Patun, Ankitkumar Raval, Tsegaye Roba, Mohamed Saleh, Kevin Seok, Iraj Seyed Zehtab, Parastoo Sharghi, Davin Shikaze, Karmen Shum, Aaron Sihota, Charissa So, Monark Sukhadia, Yi Sun, Kevin Tai, Shane Tamana, Nilesh Tanna, Ryan Teo, Christine Thalakada, Jessica Tom, Harman Toor, Yagnesh Ramesh Trivedi, Janet Truong, Ronald Tsang, Melissa Twaites, Trisha Van Der Star, Angela Vuong, Chong Yu Wang, Emily Wharton, Gabriella Wong, Ian Wong, Jacqueline Wong, May Wu, Arvi Mae Yu, Jamie Yuen and Tian Zhang. Pharmacy (Corporate) members: City Centre Pharmacy, Labpharma, Low Cost Western Pharmacy #2 and Manshadi Pharmacy.
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