The Tablet

The Tablet, is a quarterly magazine for BCPhA members. It features pharmacy and industry news, profiles on B.C. pharmacists, information on research developments and new products. It is a premiere quarterly print publication containing in-depth news, features, discussions on practice issues and recommendations. 

Inside each edition, you will find updates and profiles of BC Pharmacy Association members, a News Dose section containing the latest news affecting pharmacists in the province, an in-depth cover story, unique features and more.

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Pharmacy Care Clinic: the words are presented in large white letters above, while a vivid yellow banner hangs just below, inviting customers to “check-in” for their health-care appointment, in a setting not unlike what patients would expect at a…

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A New Report Highlights the Often-Overlooked Role of Pharmaceutical Distributors

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What patients are really saying about our pharmacy teams in British Columbia

By Aaron Sha, Max Ahluwalia, Fong Chan, and Priya Bains

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Nominations for the Student Leadership Spotlight will re-open early September 2025. The link will be shared on the UBC Pharmacy Facebook Hub as well as via email if you are a PLS member. For more information regarding PLS, please contact…

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Health care and social services are consistently among the top three most important issues for British Columbians, according to a new survey commissioned by the BC Pharmacy Association. 

The survey, which polled 801 B.C. residents from…

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B.C. Minister of Health Josie Osborne spoke with members on May 2, 2025 in Victoria at the BC Pharmacy Association Annual Conference. The message on this page is reproduced from her speech at the conference.…

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Jagpaul Deol is Founder of Atma Apothecare and the Psychedelic Sikh Society, and serves as pharmacist consultant to various organizations, including TheraPsil, SABI Mind, Qi Integrated Health, EntheoMed, Upstream Health, Centre for Medicine…

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The University of British Columbia’s Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lalitha Raman-Wilms, recently provided an update on her Faculty’s student recruitment efforts, particularly its increased efforts towards attracting students from…

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Community pharmacy prescription dispensing counts have reached more than 100 million for the first time in British Columbia, marking a significant milestone in the quantity of services delivered by the profession. 

According to data…

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Sponsored by Duchesnay

By Jane Xia, Bsc.Pharm, PharmD, MBA, RPh

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This edition is a reminder of how far our profession has come. Each day at work, we see numerous patients who could be coming to our pharmacy for different reasons, whether it’s to receive a vaccine, to drop off their prescriptions for their…

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Numbers, numbers, numbers — I went to journalism school so words are more my thing than numbers.

But, as our Board Chair Colleen Hogg says in her column, the recently released PharmaCare Trends report reflects the hard work pharmacists have…