Pharmacy

Art work by Lisa Morgan,
Pharmacy Deptartment

Hi,

I work in the Pharmacy Department. At the pharmacy we get your medicine ready for you, whether you are staying in Alder Hey, are going home after staying here, have attended a clinic or have been seen in our Accident and Emergency Department.

A lot of people work in Alder Hey Pharmacy Department such as pharmacist, technicians and assistants. We also have a medicine information service just in case your own doctor needs to talk to us about your treatment.

We dispense (get ready) hundreds of medicines each day including:

• Putting tablets and liquids into bottles
• Making creams and ointments
• Making the medicine itself.

We also label the bottles and tubs label correctly. We know that everyone is different and to make sure our patients are taking the right amount of medicine we double check every dose and make sure that it is exactly right for our patients.

Making medicine is a bit like baking a cake because involves a recipe sheet and mixing all of the ingredients together. Some of our patients are too little to take tablets so we will make medicine for them.

If you visit the Pharmacy Department, we are always happy to explain to you what your medicines are for and how to take them.

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