Core Area
Practice
Strategic Area
Leverage of the Pharmacists Clinic in our programming and through best practice sharing across the province
Goal Status
In Progress
Objectives
- Faculty to potentially provide site for collaborative pilot trial as part of the Contraception Abortion Research Team (CART) with the Faculty of Medicine (FoM), Ministry of Health (MoH) and College of Pharmacists of BC (CPBC) (2025–26).
Achieved Goals
- Initiated review of Pharmacists Clinic including consideration of research as a goal (Sep 2023); completed review (2024).
- Clinic expanded focus in research. Received a Ministry of Health Research Seed Grant Program for project entitled: Barriers and facilitators to pharmacist contraception prescribing (2024).
- Launched pharmacist phone line in the Pharmacists Clinic with pharmacist support for patients with real time support in rural and remote areas through the Real-Time Virtual Support (RTVS) program (Aug 2025).
- Initiated work on Ministry of Health (MoH) seed grant funded project regarding patient perspectives on access for patients with tobacco use disorder to Plan S (2025–26).
- Initiated project with the College of Pharmacists of BC (CPBC) to conduct a quality improvement (QI) evaluation of the "Expectations of care" poster from the perspective of patients (2025).