Six charts just dropped: See what pharmacists can do across Canada

If you work in pharmacy, there’s a good chance you’ve consulted one of CPhA’s scope of practice charts at some point — to answer a question, compare jurisdictions, settle the occasional debate about who can do what, where, or maybe just feel a little smug about how many checkmarks your province has.

So when we publish a new chart update, it tends to turn a few heads.

Some say it’s like the pharmacy profession’s version of a surprise album drop (do they?) — except instead of one new release, we’ve got six.

All six of CPhA’s scope of practice and pharmacy services charts have now been updated for 2026, giving you the latest at-a-glance look at what pharmacists are authorized to do across Canada.

Taken together, the charts tell a bigger story too. Pharmacist scope continues to expand across the country, but significant differences remain between provinces and territories. Depending on where they practise, pharmacists may have very different authority to prescribe, administer vaccines and medications, manage controlled substances, provide contraception and deliver publicly funded services.

Whether you’re looking for the big picture or trying to answer one very specific scope question, there’s a chart for that.

And if all those checkmarks (or missing checkmarks) leave you thinking pharmacists should be able to provide more of the care they’re trained to deliver, visit PharmacistsCAN.ca to learn more and add your voice to the call for change.