The Inpatient Hospital Pharmacy  provides pharmaceutical care to patients in hospital.

Clinical pharmacists visit the hospital wards on a regular basis to provide medicines management and pharmaceutical care to patients.

This involves consultation with patients and their caregivers if necessary. All patients are encouraged to bring their medicines into hospital with them to ensure we are able to tell exactly what medicines are being taken.

The pharmacy team works very closely with the medical and nursing staff to identify and resolve any problems with medication.

Individual patients may receive additional review and medication counselling on request of the medical team or as deemed appropriate by the pharmacist.

Inpatient pharmacies are at both North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals.

North Shore Hospital Pharmacy - Outpatient Pharmacy provides medicines management to patients on discharge from hospital who are provided with a discharge prescription.  Those attending Outpatient Clinics and ECC, Community Mental Health clients, and any person in the community may also have their prescription filled and medications discussed.

Pharmacy services include:

• dispensing of prescriptions
• providing access to medicines that are difficult to locate or are unusual
• patient information and counselling
• blister packaging
• breast pump hire
• aseptic preparation of eye drops
• preparation of medications for syringe drivers.