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Pharmacist Awareness Week
March 1-6, 2010

Pharmacist Awareness Week (PAW) 2010 is an opportunity to celebrate the profession, our evolving role in the health care system, our collaboration with other providers, and our role as advocates for quality health care.

During this year's PAW, take action to help your patients understand the important role of pharmacists in primary health care teams, homecare and medication management services.  Let's continue to reinforce our services and encourage our patients to make better use of our expertise by including us in their 'picture' of good health.

Use this year's message to remind patients, politicians and the media that drugs only become effective medicine with proper care. Pharmacists, with their years of specific training in medications and how they work, are ideally situated to offer such care and are already doing so. Use PAW to help all Canadians understand how very much pharmacists contribute to patients' overall health, and how much more we could be doing.

We want to hear from you, so if you are planning an event in your community, send us a brief outline explaining the details of the event and we will post it on our web site.  Email your initiatives to email@panl.net or call (709) 753-7881.

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