{"id":83154,"date":"2025-08-20T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83154\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:44:10","slug":"new-training-for-pharmacists-to-substitute-medications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83154\/","title":{"rendered":"New training for pharmacists to substitute medications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/56239ef0-2167-44e6-99bc-d6318ef56c79.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(ID 98108053 \u00a9  Ammentorp | Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By paNOW Staff<\/p>\n<p>expanded training<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 19, 2025 | 10:52 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan pharmacists are becoming more equipped to handle a supply disruption or shortage of a prescribed drug.  <\/p>\n<p>The province announced training will allow pharmacists to prescribe alternative medications under conditions approved by the Saskatchewan College of Pharmacy Professionals (SCPP). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPharmacists are trusted, highly skilled health professionals, who, in many communities, are the primary access point for health-care services,\u201d Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said. \u201cGiving pharmacists the ability to prescribe alternative medications means Saskatchewan patients can benefit from more timely and accessible health care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacists will be required to take training and meet competency requirements as established by the Saskatchewan College of Pharmacy Professionals and follow mandatory guidelines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(ID 98108053 \u00a9 Ammentorp | Dreamstime.com) By paNOW Staff expanded training Aug 19, 2025 | 10:52 AM Saskatchewan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-83154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}