Operator I - Media Prep -WYETH-USA- Charles City, IA

In the UK, the Government has recognised the importance of the pharmacist’s role and provides funding to hospices to enable them to purchase pharmaceutical advice. This advice, which may be provided by either hospital or community pharmacists, consists of individual patient prescription monitoring, recommendations for formularies, advice on medicines policies, discharge planning and the use of patients’ own drugs and advice on stock control and the safe storage, administration and disposal of medicines Many patients, especially towards the end of life, have their medicines administered over24 hours through a syringe driver. There is little published data available on the compatibility of different injectable medicines in a syringe driver and pharmacists are often asked for professional advice on the stability and suitability of combinations of two, three and even four drugs in a syringe.

3. Specific preparations and products