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The Ontario government has expanded and raised the fees for its MedsCheck patient medication review program giving pharmacies the opportunity to recoup some of the revenues lost from a ban on generic ...

In 2007 the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, in collaboration with the Ontario Pharmacy Council and the Ontario Pharmacists' Association, launched the MedsCheck program, which targets ...

Shoppers Drug Mart billed the Ontario government’s MedsCheck program $81.2 million for medication reviews over a two-year period when some of its current and former pharmacists said they were facing ...

I completely agree with Shawn Tracy and Ross Upshur that physicians should become more involved in MedsCheck,1 a program in which Ontario patients with chronic diseases who take 3 or more prescription ...

Loblaws heir Galen Weston Jr. has more to worry about right now than the forthcoming consumer boycott of his stores, as the authority that oversees the practice of pharmacy in Ontario is set to launch ...

Sitting at her home in Ottawa earlier this month, Mary Fernando got an out-of-the-blue call from her pharmacy at Shoppers Drug Mart. An employee on the other end of the line asked if she was still ...

Ontario is looking to give pharmacists more powers to prescribe drugs for common ailments like strep throat even as it re-examines the “MedsCheck” program amid reports some drug stores used it to pad ...

The Progressive Conservative government is poised to back off from controversial cuts to the MedsCheck prescription counselling program and changes to dispensing fees for pharmacists who serve nursing ...

Ontario pharmacists doubled their billings under a patient counselling program to recoup millions lost in revenue from the province's generic-drug reforms. At drug-store counters across the province, ...

Shoppers Drug Mart billed the government for a MedsCheck on Marg Davies that she says didn't happen. After a CBC News investigation detail allegations of improper MedsChecks and corporate pressure to ...