Pharmacy

The WCH Pharmacy team helps by:

• Providing important information, and answering questions, about your or your child’s medications
• Co-ordinating and supplying new and ongoing medications to hospital in-patients, after an out-patient appointment and on discharge
• Conducting regular reviews throughout your or your child’s hospital stay, in collaboration with other members of the healthcare team, to ensure that you or they are receiving the safest and most effective medication
• Offering a medication ordering service (where you can place an order for medications online ahead of time) and a postal service for metro and regional patients.
• Answering your questions about medications for you or your child through our Statewide SA Pharmacy Medicines Information Service.
• Preparing and manufacturing a range of sterile and non-sterile medications onsite, including injectable medications, anti-cancer medications (chemotherapy) and a range of oral liquid formulations
• Sourcing hard-to-obtain medications, including from overseas if necessary
• Supporting clinical trials and research into new medications.

Services not provided

• The Pharmacy Department can only supply medications prescribed on a hospital prescription.
• The Pharmacy Department does not sell any pharmacy supplies e.g. over-the-counter medicines (e.g. paracetamol, ibuprofen).

If you keep your prescription at the WCH Pharmacy, you can order medications ahead of time via our Repeat Medication Ordering Service. This service includes collection or home delivery.

Find out more about the Medication ordering service:

Inpatient medications and discharge medications will be organised through your ward. On occasion you may be given a prescription which can be filled either at our pharmacy or taken to your local pharmacy. Please check if this is appropriate for your prescription.

For outpatient prescriptions, you can present to the Ground Floor Dispensary, just inside the Kermode Street entrance. For Haematology and Oncology patients you may wish to order your medications from the Haematology/Oncology Pharmacy when attending the Michael Rice Centre for Haematology and Oncology.

The Pharmacy Department has two dispensaries where medications can be collected.

• The main dispensary is on the Ground Floor of the WCH, just inside the Kermode Street entrance.
• There is a dispensary in the Michael Rice Centre for Haematology and Oncology specifically for patients seen within that clinical service.

The WCH Pharmacy provides medications and advice for any woman or child attending a WCH Outpatient clinic.

Patients, parents and carers can also use the online medication ordering service to pre-order their medications and collect them at a convenient time or have them delivered to their home.

For our location and opening times, please see below.

When you come to have a prescription filled by us, you will need to provide the following information:

• Identity cards: Medicare, Concession and Safety Net cards
• Your Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander status
• Advice on any previous allergies or drug reactions you or your child have or have had in the past
• Details of other medications you or your child are taking, including:
  • medicines prescribed by a GP or specialist
  • vitamins
  • supplements
  • herbal remedies
  • inhalers
  • creams
  • items bought at a pharmacy or health food store.