The Pharmacy team is encouraging those who are going into hospital to ensure they bring in any medicines they are currently taking.
If you are admitted, it’s important that the team can understand what medication you’re already taking.
This should include prescribed and purchased medicines, such as over the counter remedies and herbal products. It is best if these are brought to hospital in their original containers.
When you are admitted to hospital, the pharmacy team will provide you with a green bag to store your medicines.
The main aim of this is to keep all of your medicine, including those from home, in one place.
Bring Your Medicine
Having your own medicines with you allows the pharmacy team to:
- reduce medicine-related errors by increasing the quality of your medicine history notes
- ensure medicines prescribed on admission correspond to those you were taking before admission
- reduce hospital discharge delays
- reduce omitted and delayed doses
- maintain the familiarity of your own medicines
- move medicines along the care pathway with you
- reduce the storage of too many medicines at home
- help healthcare staff understand how patients manage their medicines at home
The medicines you bring in with you will be kept in a locked cabinet near your bed.
If you run out, the Pharmacy will give you a new supply. If any new medicines are prescribed during your stay, the Pharmacy will supply them to use on the ward and to take home.
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