Medications
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Your pharmacist will be available to answer any questions you have about your medications.
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During your stay in hospital, your ward pharmacist will:
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Talk to you about your medicines
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Regularly review your medicines and work with your doctors and nurses to ensure that all medicines prescribed are right for you and that they work together
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Give you any medicines that you may need during your stay
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Give you information on any new medicines prescribed
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Any medication that you are required to bring with you to hospital, including prescription and non-prescription medications, ointments and any purchases from the supermarket, will be kept in a locked bedside drawer while you are in hospital.
On Discharge
On discharge your pharmacist will:
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Give you a list of medicines to take, tell you how to take them, what they are for, and what ones have been stopped
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Ensure that you have sufficient medicines to last until you next see your doctor. This may include returning your own medicines to you, and/or supplying the same amount of medicine that your GP might prescribe on the PBS
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Check your own medicines and label them with correct directions
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Check if any of your medicines are no longer needed and explain what ones have been stopped
Payment
When the hospital pharmacy supplies you with medicines, you will be charged in the same way that you pay for prescriptions at your community pharmacy.
An invoice will be included with your new supplies or sent to your home address. Please advise staff if you have a concession card or if your home address has changed.
Questions and Answers
Please ask your pharmacist any questions about your medicines, such as:
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What is the medicine for?
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How do I take it and for how long?
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Is it OK with food or other medicines?
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What are the possible side effects
Please ask your hospital or community pharmacist to dispose of any unwanted or out of date medicines.
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