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Council approved several significant policy changes in registration and professional practice in its latest meeting.

If your working conditions are hindering your ability to provide quality care, it’s time to start a conversation.

Our office will be closed on Friday, March 30, 2018, (Good Friday) and Monday, April 2, 2018, (Easter Monday). We...

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...

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.

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...

A recent hearing tribunal issued its written decision on the merits and orders about the conduct of a pharmacy technician who was found to have...

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...

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...

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: ...

A recent hearing tribunal issued its written decision on the merit and orders about the conduct of a pharmacist who was found to have accessed and used a patient’s health...

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...

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...

“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...

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