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General Information About Pharmacy Departments
Sandwell Hospital and Birmingham City Hospital
As one of the largest NHS trusts within the West Midlands, the pharmacy service employ over 170 people including 40 pharmacists. Both sites are situated just a few miles from Birmingham City Centre, and both are within easy reach of rural areas including Sandwell Valley. The Trust, which has a combined capacity of over 1250 beds, comprises three main sites, City Hospital, Sandwell Hospital and Rowley Regis Community Hospital. Full teaching hospital status has been granted across the City and Sandwell sites and this ethos is continued within pharmacy, where strong departmental links with Aston and Keele University's undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy courses are apparent. City Hospital is the base for the West Midlands CSM which deals with "Yellow Card" adverse drug reaction reports, as well as being the regional centre for Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Radiopharmacy and Quality Control all of which receive extensive pharmacy input . Sandwell hospital is equally broad and houses specialities such as paediatric and mental health pharmacy. New advances for the trust include the well publicised Birmingham Treatment Centre, which is a multimillion pound, hi tech centre for one stop diagnosis and treatment that will feature its own state of the art facilities including a new pharmacy. This centre is due to open at the start of 2005. Across both sites we endeavour to provide our summer pharmacy students with a broad and extensive training. Area's covered, have in the past included shadowing our supplementary prescribers on the Intensive Therapy Unit, participation in pharmacist led anticoagulant clinics, undertaking clinical audit research on the wards, observation of consultant ward rounds/clinics, as well as the usual complement of clinical pharmacist visits, experiential learning in medicines information and aseptics together with focussed dispensary and medicines management training.
- 6 placements at Birmingham City Hospital
- 6 placements at Sandwell Hospital
- All placements are 4 weeks
- All placements are 2 weeks paid and 2 weeks voluntary
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Russells Hall Hospital
Russells Hall Hospital is a large, new privately financed General Hospital near Dudley and has an active hospital social club on site. It is conveniently situated next to the big city life of Birmingham on one side and the beautiful green belt countryside of Worcestershire and Staffordshire on the other. Modern shopping complexes, leisure and sports facilities and a modern transport infrastructure are all to be found within easy reach of the hospital. Informal visits are welcomed and vacational placements may be available.
Russells Hall Hospital is the principal hospital site in a trust which has more than 900 beds covering the full range of medical specialities supported by over 100 pharmacy staff. In Summer 2004 the pharmacy department relocated in to a state of the art new unit as part of the Dudley Group of Hospitals new build programme. At this time the majority of Russells Hall wards and departments were also relocated in to newly built units. By 2005 all inpatients will be treated at the Russells Hall site with Ambulatory care and out-patient services being provided as new satellite centres. As part of the pre-registration training programme secondments to other specialist centres within the West Midlands Region are facilitated.
In 2004 the trust was granted teaching trust status with the University of Birmingham . Personal development of students is our aim, our policy is to treat students as individuals and our programme is flexible to their needs. Students will work in all specialist sections of hospital pharmacy, actively participating in clinical pharmacy and enjoying secondment to other departments within the hospital. This thorough and comprehensive training programme takes place in a progressive pharmacy environment that includes well-developed TPN, cytotoxic reconstitution and Medicines Information services and clinical directorate support. The skills mix has been developed with the support of dispensing ATO's, technician checkers, ward based technician services and extensive automation to permit the achievement of a clinically focussed role. Russells Halls Hospital also receives undergraduate pharmacy students from Aston University to support their Clinical Pharmacy training and has strong links with the Department of Medicines Management at Keele University in support of their postgraduate clinical programmes.
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Good Hope Hospital
The hospital is situated in Sutton Coldfield, a pleasant residential area about 10 miles north of Birmingham and close to motorway links, rail services and public transport. Assistance will be given in trying to find suitable accommodation. Excellent recreational facilities are available close to the hospital including sport, cinema and theatre.
The hospital training programme is structured so that experience is gained in aseptic services including cytotoxic reconstitution, dispensing to in-patients and out-patients, patient-counselling, drug distribution and especially in clinical pharmacy which includes ward visits to a wide range of specialities. Students are encouraged to become involved in clinical meetings and tutorials and carry out audit. Opportunities include working in the Regional Medicines Information Centre based on site, community pharmacy, radiopharmacy and other wards and departments. All of the pharmacists are actively involved in continuing professional development.
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Number of placements as yet unknown.
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All placements are 2 weeks
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All placements are unpaid.
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Walsall Manor Hospital
A busy DGH providing acute, community and mental health services to a population of 263,000 in Walsall alone. Pre-registration graduates are provided with a structured rotational programme in all aspects of hospital pharmacy (aseptic services, medicines information, clinical pharmacy and in/out-patient dispensing) in accordance with the pre-registration syllabus requirements, complemented by regional training days. Pre-registration graduates can expect to be seconded to community pharmacy, quality assurance and Regional Medicines Information placements. The pharmacy service is in the midst of an expansion programme with the accent upon increasing the involvement of pharmacists with patients from admission through to discharge. The service is provided from a modern, purpose-built site of premises adjacent to the hospital's out- patient department. Accommodation may be available whilst more permanent arrangements are made.
Walsall offers a splendid varied selection of facilities and amenities, a good choice of shops, the award-winning Museum and Art gallery and its Arboretum famous for its Illuminations which is boasted as being the best display outside of Blackpool. Walsall is within 1 mile of the M6 and in easy reach of the West Midland conurbation.
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New Cross Hospital
The Trust comprises two main sites, namely New Cross Hospital and the Eye Infirmary and is a teaching hospital with over 1200 beds covering the full range of clinical specialities. The hospital is the location of a large Cancer Centre and one of the largest Heart and Lung Centres in the UK making Royal Wolverhampton Teaching Hospitals a real centre of excellence. The Pharmacy Department is a modern, forward thinking department with automated dispensing, a prescription tracking system and a technician led dispensary allowing pharmacists to become more involved in clinical duties. The department has links with both Aston and Keele Universities to provide undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy teaching. We aim to give our summer students broad training in all aspects of hospital pharmacy. This includes work in each section of the department (aseptic sterile services, medicines information, preparative services, dispensaries and purchasing) as well as the Eye Hospital. In addition, students will gain experience in a range of clinical specialities including acute medicine, cardiology, paediatrics, surgery and elderly care to provide a sound all round basic training in clinical pharmacy.
Wolverhampton is situated on the north western edge of the Birmingham conurbation, adjacent to the spectacular countryside of Shropshire and Staffordshire. Housing is affordable, and the rail and road network provides excellent access to all parts of the country. Having recently gained "city" status, Wolverhampton is undergoing major regeneration and is fast becoming a highly attractive place to live and work.
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Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital
and Northcroft Hospital
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust has pharmacy departments in the Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital and Northcroft Hospital in Erdington. Here you will learn about dispensing to a whole range of patients, practise your drug information skills, help with recording information on computer and other IT skills. You will visit wards and may have the opportunity to attend one multidisciplinary meeting (depending upon time and resources). A small project may be available. We have in the past looked at drug returns, phone calls, when requests come up to the pharmacy and when the finished product goes back, on call analysis, but it is governed by the workload.
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2 placements at Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital
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2 placements at Northcroft Hospital
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All placements are 4 weeks
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All placements are 2 weeks paid and 2 weeks voluntary
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If you have any further enquires, please contact Martin Reed on
0121 678 2107
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