Pharmacy
The main role of a hospital pharmacist is to promote the safe and effective use of medication.
Cost
Inpatients will not be charged for medicines supplied. However, any medicines dispensed on discharge or as an outpatient will incur the same PBS co-payment as community pharmacies. Patients will need to present their:
- Medicare card
- Healthcare card
- Repat card
- Safety net card
- Pensioner Concession card
- Commonwealth Seniors Health card
Where
Casey Hospital
T: 03 8768 1593
Hours: 8.45am-5.15pm Monday to Friday, 10.00am-noon Saturday and Sunday
Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre
T: 03 5990 6194
Hours: 9.00am-1.00pm, 2:15pm-5:15pm Monday to Friday
Dandenong Hospital
T: 03 9554 8303
Hours: 8.45am-5.15pm Monday to Friday, 10.00am-12.30pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays
Kingston Centre
T: 03 9265 1241
Hours: 8.30am-5.00pm Monday to Friday
Monash Medical Centre, Clayton
T: 03 9594 2360
Hours: 8.45am-5.15pm Monday to Friday, 9.00am-1.00pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays
Monash Medical Centre, Moorabbin
T: 03 9928 8724
Hours: 8.30am-5.00pm Monday to Friday, 10.00am-noon Saturday
Quality use of medicines
Quality use of medicine means:
- selecting medicine management options wisely
- choosing suitable medicines if a medicine is considered necessary
- using medicines safely and effectively
Although quality use of medicines is something that pharmacists, doctors and nurses undertake in their everyday practice, the Southern Health pharmacy department has a service to specifically address these issues.
The quality use of medicine service of the Southern Health pharmacy department includes:
- Drug usage evaluation program - is an authorised, structured ongoing audit system for improving the quality use of medicines. Medicines use is evaluated by using predetermined standards and efforts are initiated to correct patterns of use which are not consistent with these standards.
- Medication guidelines and protocols - involves reviewing current literature and the best available evidence for medicines use and developing, implementing and promoting medication guidelines and protocols in consultation with medical, nursing and other hospital staff.
- Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) reporting program - ADRs that are reported at Southern Health are sent to ADRAC and reviewed to identify trends, raise awareness and assist with education programs to prevent avoidable ADRs.
- Therapeutic equivalence program - identifies high cost medication classes and selects preferred medicines from these classes based on evidence and expert clinical opinion to support their therapeutic equivalence. It aims to promoting these preferred medicines to maximise the cost-effectiveness of medication management at Southern Health.
- Promotion of rational use of antibiotics
- Education to doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other hospital staff and patients about quality use of medicines
- Medication incident monitoring
- Medication safety project management
- Research and publication of quality use of medicine projects
- Southern Health committees membership
The Encapsulator
This is our pharmacy bulletin which is published quarterly and focuses on medicine issues specifically related to hospital practice.
2012
- Editorial: Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions - Why is it important?
- Lithium-associated hyperthyroidism
- Simvastatin: An update
- National NIMC audit results
- Slow release and extended release tramadol formulations
- Proton pump inhibitors for babies with gastro-oesophageal reflux
2011
- Editorial: The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia - 50 years of national leadership
- Mirtazapine-induced hepatocellular-type liver injury
- Labelling of injectable medicines, fluids and lines
- Surgical - antimicrobial prophylaxis procedure
- Medicine and substance exposure in pregnancy
- Seasons greetings
- Dr Pharma Seuss
- Editorial: Healthcare reform in China - Why are clinical pharmacists so important?
- Adverse drug reaction: Oral methotrexate causing hiccups
- Changes to prescribing of Section 100 Highly Specialised Drugs
- Medication management plan
- NSAID use claimed to increase risk for spontaneous abortion
- Editorial: Marketing pharmaceuticals - Are the benefits real?
- Vorixconazole significantly increasing blood concentration of tacrolimus
- Pharmacy services in the new anaesthetic assessment clinic
- New medication formulary documents and consent form
- Hyponatramia associated with antihypertensive medications and water ingestion
- Increased risk of blood clots associated with birth control pills
- Editorial: Empowering patients to take control of their medication - The way forward?
- Ketamine
- Citalopram-induced hallucinations and delusions in a young adult
- Medical interns prescribing competency
- Nutritionally dense supplements on the medication chart
- Antipsychotic medications in pregnancy and breastfeeding
2010
- Editorial: New technology and medication safety - Can e-prescribing make a difference?
- Clarifications
- Clarithromycin and statins
- Benzodiazepines
- VTE box on national inpatient medication chart
- Antihistamines in pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Seasons greetings
- Editorial: Improving medication effectiveness - Are biomarkers and precision medicine the answer?
- Interesting points about dipyridamole and clopidogrel
- Food allergies and medicines
- Colchicine dosing in acute gout
- Switch campaign - update
- Mycophenolate in pregnancy
2009
