{"id":514,"date":"2021-01-13T14:07:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asicbc.ca\/?p=514"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:13:37","slug":"london-drugs-offering-accessible-prescription-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/2021\/01\/13\/london-drugs-offering-accessible-prescription-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"London Drugs Offering Accessible Prescription Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Access for Sight Impaired Consumers is pleased to announce our discussions regarding accessible prescription labels with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.londondrugs.com\/\">London Drugs<\/a>\u00a0has proven successful. These prescription labels are now available at all 78\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.londondrugs.com\/\">London Drugs<\/a>\u00a0locations throughout British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Encoded prescription labels will provide an\u00a0<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ScripTalkDemo.mp3\">audio output<\/a>\u00a0of the prescription information by way of an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.envisionamerica.com\/products\/scripability\/scriptalk\/scriptalk-station-for-patients\/\">En-Vision America&#8217;s ScripTalk Reader<\/a>\u00a0which is provided free of charge by requesting one be sent directly to you through any\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.londondrugs.com\/\">London Drugs<\/a>\u00a0pharmacy. En-Vision America will ship a ScripTalk Reader directly to your home or office at no charge to you.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">When you or your physician presents a new or repeat prescription to be filled by the pharmacy, simply ask the pharmacist to afix an encoded RFID label to the prescription bottle.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.londondrugs.com\/\">London Drugs<\/a>\u00a0 will provide the encoded label at no additional charge. Your ability to identify and manage your prescription medications entirely on your own has now become an even greater reality!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">All\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.londondrugs.com\/\">London Drugs<\/a>\u00a0locations have now joined a growing number of socially responsible pharmacies which have come to understand the challenge of attempting to manage prescription medications with a vision loss. We appreciate their willingness to listen, to understand and respond in such a positive manner. Along with the many pharmacies within all Overwaitea Food Group stores (e.g.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricesmartfoods.ca\/\">PriceSmart Foods<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveonfoods.com\/\">Save- On Foods<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coopersfoods.com\/\">Coopers Foods<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanfare.com\/\">Urban Fair<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bulkleyvalleywholesale.com\/\">Bulkley Valley Wholesale<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.overwaitea.com\/\">Overwaitea Foods<\/a>) as well as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplesdrugmart.com\/\">Peoples Drug Mart<\/a>\u00a0pharmacies throughout BC, consumers with vision loss or other print disabilities now have an even wider variety of choice for accessible prescription information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access for Sight Impaired Consumers is pleased to announce our discussions regarding accessible prescription labels with\u00a0London Drugs\u00a0has proven successful. These prescription labels are now available&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/2021\/01\/13\/london-drugs-offering-accessible-prescription-labels\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">London Drugs Offering Accessible Prescription Labels<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}