Pharmacy

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We carefully review prescriptions to ensure you are treated safely and effectively with medicines that are most appropriate to you and provide information on how to manage your medicines at home. Many of our pharmacists are prescribers and work with the clinical teams to optimise your medicines. 

We dispense medicines for inpatients, outpatients and patients on discharge.

We also prepare chemotherapy drugs for cancer patients.

Inpatients

If you are due to stay in hospital, please bring your current medicines in their original packaging with you. This will help us ensure that the clinical team looking after you are aware of all of the medicines (and dosages) that you are taking.

During your hospital stay your ward pharmacist will be available to discuss any questions or concerns you may have about your medicines.

On discharge you will be provided with a supply of medicine that you need. For new medicines, a supply for at least 2 weeks will be made and you will be asked to get further supplies from your GP (your GP will be informed of any changes we have made).

Outpatients

White hospital outpatient prescriptions can only be dispensed by one of the hospital pharmacy departments or by Pharm@sea.

NHS prescription charges apply to outpatients, day case and A&E prescriptions. If you are exempt from these charges or have a pre-payment certificate, you should bring evidence of this with you.

Outpatient prescriptions written by the hospital may also be sent electronically directly to one of our hospital pharmacies or to a company that delivers medicines to your home.

FP10s (green coloured prescriptions)

Hospital pharmacies do not have a contract to dispense community FP10s obtained from your GP (green coloured prescriptions).

If you are given one of these prescriptions you will need to take it to a community pharmacy to have it dispensed. You will also have to do this if the hospital has provided with you with an outside green FP10 prescription.

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