Neighbourhood Pharmacy Gazette - 2025 Fall Issue

The Fall 2025 edition of the Neighbourhood Pharmacy Gazette is now available. 📰

💡 Our cover story 'A rock and a hard place: Why funding models for pharmacy must change -- for patients' sake' explores the growing challenges facing community pharmacies across Canada. While pharmacists are uniquely positioned to deliver care that improves health outcomes and efficiency, decades of underfunding, stagnant fees, and rising costs are threatening the sustainability of local pharmacy services.

This latest issue features insights from pharmacy leaders on the critical need for updated funding models, the risks to patient access if urgent action isn’t taken, and how collaboration among stakeholders can safeguard pharmacies as central hubs for primary care, public health, and drug access—especially in underserved communities.

This edition also explores policy options currently under consideration in Ontario for the regulation of PPNs, how one of our members is working to keep dangerous medications out of the hands of children, impacts of Health Canada's recent restrictions on sales of NRT products, and a feature on our 2025 Neighbourhood Pharmacy Award winners.  

📢 Read the latest issue to explore how pharmacy is solving today’s challenges and shaping tomorrow’s care—and share it with your teams, colleagues and networks to keep the conversation going.