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Our office will be closed on Friday, March 30, 2018, (Good Friday) and Monday, April 2, 2018, (Easter Monday). We will reopen at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. 

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The goal of the Health Product InfoWatch is to raise awareness and to provide clinically relevant information to healthcare professionals concerning marketed health products and their safety. In some cases, information is intended to stimulate reporting of similar adverse reactions.

Each publication includes a mont...

The Council of the Alberta College of Pharmacists (ACP) is proposing to enhance our standards for testing in Pharmacy Practice, integrating existing standards with new requirements important to the safe and responsible use of Point of Care Tests...

The Alberta College of Pharmacists (ACP) has seen reports of Albertans offering for sale prescription medications and nutritional supplements that seem to have been previously dispensed to Alberta pharmacies. Members of the public are using social media channe...

Pharmacy technicians, here is a chance to give back to your profession: Be a preceptor for a student.

There are five colleges in Alberta with accredited pharmacy technician programs, and all of them are looking for preceptors to give their students an opportunity to complete...

The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (PEBC) invites pharmacists to consider participating in the PEBC Qualifying Examination – Part II OSCE as an assessor on May 27, 2018, in Edmonton and Calgary.

ACP’s 2018 registrant survey is being conducted by Advanis, an independent research company commissioned by ACP, to gather opinions, measure awareness, and examine the views of how the college is performing in its work to regulate the province’s pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacies.

For those of you who have comple...

As many of you know, on February 28, the Province announced a new two-year funding framework agreement established by three agreements including

• the Alberta Blue Cross Pharmaceutical Services Provider Agreement (ABCPSPA),
• the Ministerial Order for the Compensation of Pharmacy Services (MO), and...

“In one year, he became a fragment of his former self…he was scared and didn’t want to die.”

Tragically, Rosalind Davis’ partner, Nathan did die from an opioid overdose. Now, Rosalind is speaking out, hoping to educate others after her own experience of feeling lost and helpless while trying to cope...

Inspiring stories and emotional tributes filled the room at the annual APEX Awards celebration in Edmonton on March 1. A partnership between the Alberta Pharmacists’ Association (RxA) and the Alberta College of Pharmacists (ACP), the APEX Awards recognize excellence in pharmacy practice in Alberta and prov...

One of the biggest reasons that could hold a pharmacist back from becoming a preceptor is that old adage: “I don’t have time.” The fear, of course, is that pharmacists have too much on their plates to supervise and teach a student. While those are aspects of a preceptor’s job, pharmacists who accept Univers...

Voting opens at 8 a.m. on March 15 for council positions for pharmacists in District 1 (Northern Alberta), District 3 (Edmonton), District 5 (Calgary), and for a pharmacy technician council position in District A (Northern Alberta).

All voting will be online at: http://pharmacists.ab.ca/vote2018