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Volume 51, No. 25

B.C. Reg. 417/2008

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 31, 2008

B.C. Reg. 417/2008 , deposited December 12, 2008, pursuant to the HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT [Section 12 (2)]. Ministerial Order M310/2008, dated December 11, 2008.

I, George Abbott, Minister of Health Services, order that, effective April 1, 2009, the attached Pharmacists Regulation is made.

— G. ABBOTT, Minister of Health Services.

PHARMACISTS REGULATION

Contents

Definitions

Reserved titles

Scope of practice

Restricted activities

Patient relations program

Definitions

1 In this regulation:

"Act" means the Health Professions Act ;

"college" means the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia continued under

section 15.1 of the Act;

"compound" means

(

a) in respect of a drug, to mix with one or more other ingredients, and

(

b) in respect of a therapeutic diet, to mix 2 or more appropriate ingredients;

"device" has the same meaning as in the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act ;

"dispense" has the same meaning as in the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act ;

"drug" has the same meaning as in the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act ;

"Drug Schedules Regulation" means the Drug Schedules Regulation, B.C. Reg. 9/98;

"practice of pharmacy" means the health profession in which a person provides the services of

(

a) identifying and assessing drug-related and device-related problems and taking action to prevent or resolve those problems,

(

b) monitoring drug therapy and advising on therapeutic values, contents and hazards of drugs and devices, and

(

c) compounding and dispensing drugs and devices;

"prescribe" means to issue a "prescription" as defined in the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act ;

"sell" has the same meaning as in the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act .

Reserved titles

2 The following titles are reserved for exclusive use by registrants:

(

a) apothecary;

(

b) druggist;

(

c) pharmacist;

(

d) pharmaceutical chemist.

Scope of practice

3 A registrant may practise the health profession of the practice of pharmacy.

Restricted activities

(1) A registrant in the course of practising the health profession of the practice of pharmacy may do any of the following:

(

a) prescribe a drug specified in

Schedule IV of the Drug Schedules Regulation to be used for emergency contraception;

(

b) compound a drug specified in

Schedule I, IA, II or IV of the Drug Schedules Regulation;

(

c) dispense a drug specified in

Schedule I, IA, II or IV of the Drug Schedules Regulation;

(

d) if nutrition is administered enterally or parenterally,

(

i) select appropriate ingredients for a therapeutic diet,

(ii) compound a therapeutic diet, or

(iii) dispense a therapeutic diet.

(2) Only a registrant may provide a service of the health profession of the practice of pharmacy as set out in this regulation if, on the day before this

section comes into force, the provision of the same service by anyone other than a person authorized under the Pharmacists , Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act was prohibited.

Patient relations program

5 The college is designated for the purposes of

section 16 (2) (

f) of the Act.

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