Pharmacy

Our service provides medicines management services for inpatients, outpatients and day admitted patients in the North West Hospital and Health Service including facilities located off-site.  A core function of the pharmacy department focuses on promoting the quality use of medicine principles and safe medication practices through:

• Patient medication dispensing
• Medication history taking, reconciliation and medication chart review;
• Patient education and medication counselling to inpatients and outpatients;
• Therapeutic drug monitoring service;
• Involvement in consultant ward rounds;
• Patient educations;
• Management of supply of medicines and claim of Section 85 (PBS) and Section 100 medicines;
• Support for indigenous health initiatives; and
• Training and ongoing education of staff and undergraduate students

Public hours of service:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday – 8:30am-12:30pm and 1pm-4pm

Wednesday – 9am-12:30 and 1pm-4pm

Outreach Pharmacist Service:

North West Hospital and Health Service has dedicated outreach pharmacist positions, for pharmacists to travel to all facilities within NWHHS including hospitals and health clinics. The regular visits allow clinical pharmacy input into patient care in these sites, a review of practices pertaining to the acquisition, storage and supply of medications and ensuring that these practices meet the requirements of the Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Regulation 2021.  These visits also allow the opportunity for the outreach pharmacist to provide education and training to staff at these sites to meet the medication management needs of the facility.

Specialist Pharmacists: 

Our Pharmacy Department also has pharmacists trained in specialty areas to provide services to Cancer Care, Renal and Cardiac outpatients. These pharmacists work with the specialist medical teams to optimise medication management for patients referred to these specialties. They also assist with communicating and facilitating medication changes and providing medicine-specific education to patients and their families.