‘It’s effortless to consider the tempo of adjust has suddenly commenced growing … but the NHS has been continuously modifying for the previous thirty many years,’ says Dennis Lauder
I hate the sound of my alarm but when I am up, I’m prepared to go – I arrive at my desk at close to 8.45 most mornings. My long journey gives me a lot of time to prepare for the day ahead , and enables me an hour or so to unwind at the end of the day.
In the 15 many years I’ve been in this function, I can honestly say no two days have ever been the identical. Definitely, each yr it feels like I am undertaking a entirely distinct occupation from the a single I was undertaking the year ahead of. It’s easy to think that the tempo of change has out of the blue commenced growing over the previous two or three many years, but in reality the NHS has been continually modifying for twenty or thirty years.
When I started this job we had two principal pharmacy internet sites – one particular at Wexham Park in Slough and another at Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot plus two separate dispensaries across the location but, since 2012, everything has been centralised at Wexham Park. This has its positive aspects but did take some acquiring employed to for our sufferers and staff.
In pharmacy there are always a lot of items taking place at the same time. We have just completed an thrilling task putting in the latest engineering in pharmacy automation: our two new medication robots. We now immediately pick medicines for patients from personal computer terminals, transporting them 200m to the primary pharmacy hub prepared to go out to the wards. We’re really pleased with how the new robots are working, which have been officially named Tom and Jerry, after a fierce departmental competitors, despite the fact that they have been nicknamed Mick and Dick for a while following the Dutch engineers who helped with the installation.
In addition to the automation tasks, pharmacy is often involved in other believe in-broad initiatives. The pharmacy division is also now coaching many of our pharmacists to be independent prescribers. Independent prescribers are experienced to a degree where they are ready to prescribe autonomously for any problem inside of their clinical competence. This will assist to help the risk-free admission and discharge of sufferers by making certain that we have as numerous very educated pharmacists as feasible to oversee that all medicines are prescribed appropriately.
I operate with a great mix of folks in pharmacy – mirroring our neighborhood neighborhood in Slough – and everyone is here to search following sufferers and support even so they can with their medicines. I’m confident some of my workers feel that I never worked as a appropriate pharmacist – I have been in this job for 15 many years so most men and women only know me in this part as chief pharmacist.
I have worked in six other hospitals and in the pharmaceutical sector ahead of doing this and I help the evening and weekend teams in my skilled capacity. It really is crucial, of course, to stay up to date in most careers but in healthcare, with the tempo of modify with drug developments and technologies, it is completely essential.
When I am not at function, I like an occasional drink after function with close friends and colleagues, and I perform football with a group of individuals from the believe in. At weekends I even now have the affliction of following Newcastle United, which I have done for forty years via thin and thinner.
I genuinely do appreciate coming to perform. I believe any person who has worked in healthcare appreciates the help of colleagues and the sense of camaraderie that naturally goes with it. It’s the individuals who make the NHS and it would be a unhappy day if there weren’t a handful of possibilities to share a smile – with anyone at any time.
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A day in the existence of ... a chief pharmacist
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