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When I started this Madventure, I hadn\u2019t realised that the tenets of Soroptimism – Educate, Enable and Empower were going to apply to me!\u00a0\u00a0 Through my various contacts I manage to arrange a day\u2019s work experience at Birmingham Children\u2019s Hospital (BCH), which has links to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital Blantyre.\u00a0\u00a0 The lovely admin staff there cut down half a tree to put the necessary paperwork in place all for me to spend a day shadowing the pharmacy staff.<\/p>\n

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When I last worked in hospital pharmacy, we wore white coats and ward pharmacy had only just been born.\u00a0\u00a0 In those days I proudly sported an array of spatulas in my lab coat pocket as we made various powders, lotions and potions.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Now it\u2019s smart casual but short sleeves to improve infection control, and I\u2019m happy to say that not only has ward pharmacy grown up in the UK but it is now a mature adult.\u00a0\u00a0 Manufacturing is done off site so not a pair of scales or spatula in sight and a robot assists with dispensing.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0One thing that hadn\u2019t changed was the in-patient pharmacy was still situated in the basement!<\/p>\n

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Birmingham Children’s Hospital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The out-patient pharmacy at BCH, on the ground floor, has easy access and is a bright, welcoming spacious area, named by the children as the \u2018Medicine Chest\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 The pharmacy staff spend time talking to the children and families as they give out the dispensed medication, much as I did in the past although in my day, out-patients had to negotiate the steps to the basement.<\/p>\n

The pharmacy staff are very generous with their time as I take copious notes, and they share examples of the paperwork they use electronically so that\u2019s less to carry.\u00a0\u00a0 As a parting gift they give me a box of Children\u2019s BNFs (British National Formulary, the pharmacist\u2019s \u2018bible\u2019 for dosages, side effects, interactions etc) as the 2015 is due out soon \u2013 I admit I struggle a little carrying them back to the train station, only just over 10kg in weight!<\/p>\n

I wonder what the pharmacy is going to be like in Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, bet they haven\u2019t got a robot.<\/p>\n

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