<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Given the size of larger district & regional teaching hospitals I think it will always be sensible to map the location of the pharmacy. For instance I've only recently discovered where decent coffee shops are in one my Mum was an in-patient for 2 weeks, and I have no idea where the pharmacy is located in the same hospital.<br><br></div>I have friends who are consultants in the main teaching hospital in Nottingham: it is not unusual for newish members of the medical staff to get lost in the place. The front desk is never quite sure where the Day Case unit is & so on.<br><br></div>Hospitals, along with shopping centres, are the two prime use cases for doing some more sophistcated indoor mapping.<br><br></div>Jerry<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 May 2016 at 08:29, Mark Goodge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@good-stuff.co.uk" target="_blank">mark@good-stuff.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 20/05/2016 16:42, Andy Townsend wrote:<br>
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On 20/05/2016 16:29, SK53 wrote:<br>
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In my experience there are certain prescription which I can only get<br>
fulfilled by a hospital pharmacy (those written by a consultant).<br>
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Agreed - and in the case of the one I'm familiar with it's not a stock<br>
issue but a bureacracy one - anything written "upstairs" by a doctor<br>
apparently has to be fulfilled by the (outsourced) hospital pharmacy.<br>
I've never tried to redeem a "regular" prescription there, but they do<br>
sell the normal high-street pharmacist add-ons, so they don't just rely<br>
on the closed shop of hospital-written prescriptions.<br>
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All pharmacists offering the standard FP10 ("green form") prescription service have to be able to dispense all drugs that can be prescribed via it. That is a licence requirement. That doesn't mean holding a stock of every drug - for the more esoteric ones, obtaining them to order is acceptable - but it is good practice to hold stocks of all those that are likely to be requested regularly. It's unlikely that a hospital FP10 pharmacy would have a stock policy that's significantly more limited than a high street pharmacy.<br>
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However, not all hospital pharmacies are FP10. This, for example, is not:<br>
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<a href="http://www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk/our_hospitals/_the_york_hospital/facilities/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk/our_hospitals/_the_york_hospital/facilities/</a><br>
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As a rule of thumb, if the pharmacy provision is outsourced to one of the regular High Street names (Stewart Pharmacy and Lloyds seem to be the most common), then it's likely that it will offer an FP10 service. If it's in-house, however, or run by a hospital pharmacy specialist, then it probably won't.<br>
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If you were going to map them, then you would need to now the difference. But, personally, I don't think it is worth it. All hospitals have a pharmacy of some sort, so mapping them separately is pointless.<br>
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Mark<br>
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