Beginning Oct. 14, pharmacists will be allowed to administer and renew up to two years a wider range of prescriptions for people without a family doctor.
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.
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