There are pharmacy departments on each of the following sites:
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Epsom Hospital
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St Helier Hospital
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Sutton Hospital.
Pharmacy department
The pharmacy department supplies medicines to outpatients, inpatients and at discharge from its five dispensaries and pharmacy stores across the Trust.
It also provides support to the research and development department, supplying medicines as a part of various clinical trials.
Clinical pharmacy services
The clinical pharmacy service provides specialist pharmacist support at ward level to ensure prescribing is safe, effective and economic.
The medicines management service undertakes drug evaluations and drawing up of prescribing guidelines, formularies and shared care policies. We have a number of pharmacist independent prescribers working on our renal unit and at the Elective Orthopaedic Centre, based at Epsom Hospital.
The medicines information service, based on the Epsom site, provides independent information and advice on all aspects of drug therapy to health care professionals and members of the public.
The licensed pharmacy production unit manufactures total parenteral nutrition (TPN, feeding a patient intravenously) and cytotoxic chemotherapy on an individual patient basis. Creams, ointments and liquids that are not commercially available are also manufactured here.
Supporting other organisations
The pharmacy department provides pharmaceutical support to other local trusts such as South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust (from our Sutton site), NHS Sutton and Merton and NHS Surrey, as well as charitable organisations including the Children's Trust at Tadworth.
Education and training
The department trains six pre-registration pharmacists and two student technicians each year. A comprehensive rotation for band six pharmacists supports newly qualified pharmacists in undertaking the postgraduate diploma in general pharmacy practice.
The department also supports the clinical teaching of pharmacy undergraduates from Kingston University.
Read more about postgraduate education at the Trust
