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Hospital Pharmacy

Stephens, Martin

Second edition

Edited by Martin Stephens- Associate Medical Director, Clinical Effectiveness and Medicines Management, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK

Hospital Pharmacy outlines the changes in pharmacy practice within the hospital setting and discusses the vast range of services that are provided. Each chapter is devoted to an area of pharmacy practice and discusses its history, current practice and future developments.
This new edition has been completely revised and updated and includes new chapters on:
  • pharmacy in the acute independent sector
  • controlled drugs in hospital pharmacy
  • pharmacist prescribing
  • mental health
  • consultant pharmacists.

This book is essential reading for pharmacy undergraduates, pre-registration graduates and newly qualified pharmacists as well as a key reference text for all hospital pharmacists departments. With its broad all-encompassing coverage it will also be of interest to other healthcare professionals.

Hospital Pharmacy is also available as an eBook.

1. Hospital Pharmacy within the NHS

2. Pharmacy in the acute independent sector

3. Purchasing medicines

4. Medicines supply and automation

5. Controlled drugs in hospital pharmacy

6. Technical services

7. Quality assurance

8. Medicines iInformation

9. Clinical pharmacy

10. Pharmacist prescribing

11. Strategic medicines management

12. Risks with medicines

13. Mental health pharmacy

14. Community health services

15. Information technology

16. Research and development

17. Workplace development

18. Consultant pharmacists

19. Managing services

Adobe PDF Sample chapter (425 KB)
Patrick McDonnell, Pharm.D.
"a book that details the features of pharmacy services within and from hospital-based
pharmacies in the United Kingdom...This book certainly provides readers with a solid understanding of the practice of hospital-based pharmacy in the U.K.”
Patrick McDonnell, Pharm.D. (Temple University School of Pharmacy)
 
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ISBN 978 0 85369 900 2

Published Mar 2011

Paperback
234 x 156mm (352pp)