PEI government signs new services agreement with PEI Pharmacists Association
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Government of Prince Edward Island and PEI pharmacists have signed a new Pharmacy Services Agreement that will allow the province to achieve savings in public drug plans, while setting the stage for expanded pharmacy services in the future. Under the terms of the new agreement, a working group will be set up with a mandate to determine which additional professional services will be publicly funded, said Erin MacKenzie, the executive director of the Prince Edward Island Pharmacists Association (PEIPA), in an e-mail to CPJ. The government has agreed to support expanded scope of practice for pharmacists and is expected to introduce enabling legislation next spring. The Prince Edward Island Pharmacy Board has proposed authority for a number of additional services, including immunizations and prescribing for minor ailments. “Funding has been set aside for our reimbursement package in advance of any legislative change, as the new agreement is in effect until 2016,” said Ms. MacKenzie. “We needed a framework, so that we weren’t waiting until the next round of negotiations to start seeing any payment for services.” The services agreement with the pharmacists incorporates the government’s revised generic pricing structure, which came into effect in July 2012. Generic drug prices are now 35% of brand-name prices; before the change, the price for generics was 60% of the brand-name price — the highest in Canada. The province estimates the new regime will save $2.4 million a year. It has agreed to reinvest some of the savings in additional pharmacy services, while using other funds to expand drug-plan coverage and add more drugs to the provincial formulary. The agreement with PEIPA includes a series of phased increases in dispensing fees, as well as provisions that will further lower costs for the drug programs, as well as for patients. For example, the day-supply eligibility for maintenance drugs has been increased from 30 to 90 days.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.208 | 0.061 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".