On March 3, 2017, BCPhA vice-president Alex Dar Santos joined other health-care workers and first responders to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a roundtable discussion on B.C.'s opioid crisis.
Congratulations to Annette Robinson and Keith Shaw, who were elected to the BCPhA Board of Directors on election day, April 15. Both positions are for three-year terms beginning Sept. 1, 2017.
A patient came into Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in Comox, B.C., to fill a prescription for a high-cost biologic. The man had PharmaCare and additional third-party drug coverage and had almost reached his deductible and family maximum.…