Pharmacy
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Benenden Hospital Pharmacy Department provides and supervises the use of all medicines prescribed within the hospital. This key role, known as medicine management, begins with coordinating the way in which medicines are selected, bought from suppliers and delivered to the hospital. It includes overseeing the way that they are prescribed and given to patients and means reviewing each patient's prescriptions regularly to ensure medicines are being used in the best way for the patient's benefit.
The pharmacy department is made up of 11 members of staff, both full and part time consisting of:
1 Pharmacy Manager
2 Clinical Pharmacists
5 Clinical Pharmacy Technicians
2 Pharmacy Assistants
1 Clerical Assistant
Clinical pharmacy teams, consisting of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, provide advice to those prescribing medicines throughout the hospital to ensure that patients receive the best medicines for their care. They also provide advice to patients on how to best use their medicines including pre-operative advice from dedicated pharmacy staff in pre-admission clinic.
Pharmacy staff members ensure the safe use and storage of medicines wherever they are used in the hospital.
Dispensary staff ensure that prescriptions are dispensed efficiently and accurately.
The department's purchasing team ensures that medicines are bought at the best prices available and that the quality and availability of the products is maintained.
The department is also responsible for evaluating requests for new medication. This process includes analysis of national guidelines and data from clinical trials and involves an assessment of a number of factors such as effectiveness, adverse effects, costs and availability.
Pharmacy staff work closely with other departments and have input into areas such as clinical governance, infection control and policy writing.
Opening hours:
Monday – Friday 9am-5pm*
*Closed from 1pm-2pm
Direct Pharmacy Line: 01580 242417
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