Pharmacy
Hillingdon Hospital: Pharmacy
Department
Pharmacy (Dispensary): 01895 279427
Pharmacy opening times: Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm
Pharmacy Medicines Help Line: 01895
279652 (10am - 4pm, Monday to Friday)
The Pharmacy Department is at the Hillingdon
Hospital site. There is also a pharmacy at Mount
Vernon Hospital although this is covered by the East
and North Herts NHS Trust.
Our department supplies approximately 25,000 items a month, 4,000 items to
outpatients, 4,500 to inpatients, 6,000 items for patients to take home on
discharge and 10,500 stock items to wards and departments such as Theatres,
Outpatients and A&E by operating a ‘ top-up’ service. All
dispensed items are clinically checked by a qualified pharmacist before the
dispensing process takes place.
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Our
drug information unit answers 1,000 enquiries a year
from doctors, nurses and other health professionals, as well as general
medical practitioners, community clinics and members of the public. |
Our manufacturing unit has rooms containing air filtered to a higher standard
than in an operating theatre. Special sterile solutions are prepared for our
special care baby unit to feed tiny babies directly into their veins. We manufacture
other items, for example ointments and mixtures for use within this hospital
and Mount Vernon Hospital. We have a computer system, which produces our dispensing
labels, keeps control of all our stock and prints reports for Management and
Medical staff.
Medicines Help Line - 01895 279652
If you have any questions about your medicines you can phone the Pharmacy
Medicines Help Line on 01895 279652 (in operation between 10am and 4pm Monday
to Friday).
This service is to assist patients with concerns over their medication following an discharge from a ward, Outpatient, Day care or A&E attendance - not a general one for any discharge problems.
Please have your medicines and prescriptions to hand when you telephone.
- If you are concerned about any changes to your medicines following your
hospital visit you can call the Medicines Help Line.
- We can only talk to you about your own or your children’s medicines.
- We cannot answer questions about your illness in general or other people’s
medicines.
- Return any medicines that you no longer need to your local pharmacy for
safe disposal.
Keep all medicines out of reach and sight of children
