Pharmacy services integrate professional knowledge, ethics, experience and skills. Together, our team of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, inventory clerks, and systems application specialists contribute to pharmacy services across UHNs three hospital sites. Pharmacy staff play a vital role in optimizing patient care related to medication use. Our services support other health professionals and serve thousands of patients a day. In addition to filling prescriptions and providing patient education, we are also on the leading edge of research, education, and technology use.

What we do:

• Fill in-patient prescriptions (more than 10,000 doses per day)
• Fill retail (outpatient) prescriptions (more than 700 prescriptions per day)
• Use computerized system to maintain patient drug profiles and check for drug interactions
• Operate retail HIV Satellite Pharmacy at Toronto General Hospital
• Provide patient education and consultation on drug therapy, handling some 3,600 drug information requests each year
• Support approximately 250 active clinical trials at UHN each year
• Train approximately 50 undergraduates and 25 postgraduates annually, as the main teaching site for the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto

Technological advancements continue to improve the accuracy, safety, and efficiency of our medication dispensing. We use fully-computerized patient drug profiles to check for drug interactions; an automated drug-dispensing system at all three sites; and we plan to pilot a new Physician Medication Order Entry in Spring 2003.

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