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Launching a hospital pharmacy drone delivery service for underserved communities

Written by | 17 Feb 2025

Cindy Williams, Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer at Riverside Health, Virginia, USA, is leading a multidisciplinary project to implement medication delivery by drone in order to improve… read more.

What are the next steps for drone delivery of medicines?

Written by | 16 Feb 2025

Much has been learned in the process of developing the drone-delivery scheme. Routine deliveries of medications have been made every 90 days to project patients for 18 months… read more.

How does a drone delivery service for medicines work in practice?

Written by | 15 Feb 2025

In this pilot project, deliveries of medicines were made to individuals in single-family homes; the medicines were packaged in purpose-designed boxes and the recipients had to agree to… read more.

Challenging logistics of a drone delivery service for medicines

Written by | 14 Feb 2025

The drone delivery service had to operate within a number of ‘guard-rails’ including restrictions on the types of medicines that could be carried and the suitability of destinations. … read more.

Could a drone delivery service for medicines improve healthcare?

Written by | 13 Feb 2025

Cindy Williams, Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer at Riverside Health, Virginia, USA, is leading a multidisciplinary project to implement medication delivery by drone in order to improve… read more.

Implementing innovative clinical pharmacy services to improve patient care in Northern Ireland

Written by | 20 Jan 2025

Innovative clinical pharmacy services have been developed in Northern Ireland that both improve patient care and save money. In this series of short videos Professor Cathy Harrison (Chief… read more.

Positioning pharmacy in Northern Ireland to make the most of independent prescribing

Written by | 19 Jan 2025

Clinical pharmacy is not standing still in Northern Ireland and plans are in place for the next stages of development. Professor Cathy Harrison, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer at the… read more.

How new pharmacy services saved £20 million per year in Northern Ireland

Written by | 18 Jan 2025

Several key elements supported the spectacular developments in pharmacy services in Northern Ireland and one of the results was a £200 million saving over an eight-year period, according… read more.

How innovative clinical pharmacy services were funded and implemented in Northern Ireland

Written by | 17 Jan 2025

Clinical pharmacy services in Northern Ireland are well-developed and delivered by a skilled and growing workforce, about 30% of which are now independent prescribers, according to Professor Cathy… read more.

Developments in healthcare – the background for new pharmacy services in Northern Ireland

Written by | 16 Jan 2025

As the keynote speaker at the 2024 ESCP symposium in Krakow, Poland, Professor Cathy Harrison (Chief Pharmaceutical Officer at the Department of Health in Northern Ireland) described how… read more.

Making sense of EC guidance for safe management of hazardous medicinal products

Written by | 8 Dec 2024

Why some medicinal products can be hazardous The European Commission Guidance for the safe management of hazardous medicinal products at work provides comprehensive instructions on how to handle… read more.

Case study – responding to a large hazardous spillage

Written by | 7 Dec 2024

Even in the best systems things occasionally go wrong, acknowledges Birgit Tans, Specialist Compounding Pharmacist, University Hospitals Leuven. When a serious incident occurred in her hospital, it prompted… read more.

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