Hospital pharmacy

NOW EXTENDED: A brave new world? Share your ideas on post-pandemic pharmacy in our writing competition

Flex your creative skills and enter our annual writing competition this year.…

NHS launches steroid emergency card to be carried by patients at risk of adrenal crisis

Patients at risk of adrenal crisis will be issued with steroid emergency cards following a series of incidents in the past two years.…

‘The diversity of patients is vast’ – a day in the life of a perioperative prescribing pharmacist

Pharmacist Tara Molloy is the main prescriber of regular medicines for patients undergoing elective procedures at Wirral University Teaching Hospital.…

Chief pharmacists advised to store specialist antidotes separately to avoid mis-selection errors

New rules for storage of antidotes will come into effect in November 2020 in response to a series of incidents, including two with fatal outcomes.…

How our hospital reduced its paracetamol overdose prescribing errors to zero

Asif Sarwar, an advanced clinical pharmacist specialising in electronic prescribing, describes how he and his team developed a tool that successfully reduced prescribing errors for patients with acute paracetamol overdose from 25% to 0%.…

‘It is difficult witnessing patients fight for their lives’ — a day in the life of a critical care pharmacist

Working in critical care can be both physically and emotionally challenging, but being proactive can help ensure patient safety and continuity of care.…

How we faced our shocking plastic culture and eradicated our most commonly used single-use items in pharmacy

Pharmacy technician Sam Coombes challenged his trust’s toxic relationship with disposable plastic when he discovered pharmacy had used more than 500,000 plastic items in just three years.…

No going back: how the pandemic is changing hospital pharmacy

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a huge challenge, but it has revolutionised pharmacy practice in some positive ways. In the first of a three-part series, we ask hospital pharmacists which changes they want to retain.…

‘I help trainees get the most from their placement’ — a day in the life of a pharmacy preregistration training lead

Each day, pharmacy preregistration training lead Helen Ireland supports trainees and tutors as they progress through their placements.…

Pharmacist-led medicines optimisation may reduce readmissions to hospital, study finds

Attending a pharmacist-led medicines optimisation clinic after hospital discharge could help to reduce patient readmissions, visits to A&E and unplanned GP consultations, a study published in the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy has found.…