Pharmacy

The aim of the Pharmacy Department is to ensure that medicines are used in the most clinical and cost effective manner and to manage the risks associated with medicines handling.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust’s pharmacies provide services to inpatients and outpatients within the hospitals and also provide services to Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and St Barnabas Hospice.

There are also dispensaries and clinical pharmacists who provide a clinical pharmacy service to individual patients on the wards.

The medicines information section of the pharmacy provides a query answering service and support to the Drug and Therapeutics Committee in terms of new products, formulary, clinical guidelines and patient group directions. Its aim is to support the safe, effective use of medicines by the provision of evidence-based information and advice on their therapeutic use both to support medicines management and to support the pharmaceutical care of individual patients.

Pharmacy also has a sterile production unit for the aseptic preparation of total parenteral nutrition, cytotoxic drugs and other aseptic products for individual patients.

The pharmacy stores deal with the procurement and supply of medicines and fluids.