Impacts of pharmacist prescribing on the equity-centred quadruple-aim outcomes

In 2023, the province of British Columbia significantly expanded the scope of practice for pharmacists, granting them the authority to prescribe medications for 21 minor ailments (as well as contraception). Given the significant use of the new service, the Ministry of Health in British Columbia is interested in the effects of further expanding the scope of practice of pharmacists to include prescribing and deprescribing for other minor ailments, chronic conditions, public-health concerns, and opioid agonist treatment.