Our Services

The Pharmacy Department provides a range of services at various sections:

Inpatient Pharmacy Services

Review and supply of inpatient medication orders
Optimisation of inpatient medications to ensure the right medication is prescribed for the right patient at the right dosing regimen, and that drug interactions and side-effects are identified and monitored
Specialised services/counselling for patients in areas such as asthma, anticoagulation, cardiology, transplantation, renal medicine, critical care, infectious disease and haematology/oncology
Dispensing of discharge prescriptions

Outpatient Pharmacy

Medication dispensing and patient counselling
Specialised services - Anticoagulation, Asthma and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Counselling and Medication Management Service (MMS)
Pharmacy Home Delivery Service

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Haematology Centre Pharmacy

Reconstituting cytotoxic drugs into ready-to-use dosage forms
Medication dispensing and counselling for inpatients and outpatients

Block 4 Pharmacy

Non-formulary drugs dispensing
A wide range of over-the-counter (OTC) medications, first-aid items, surgical dressings and toiletries
OTC and Pharmacy Only Medicine Counselling for walk-in customers

Aseptic Dispensing Service

Prepares Total Parenteral Nutrition formulations for inpatients
Prepares extemporaneous formulations of sterile eye-drops and injectables

Drug Information Service (DIS)

The Drug Information Service (DIS) serves the information needs of physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other healthcare professionals at the Singapore General Hospital. It is not for public access.

The service is run by a full-time pharmacist, handling almost 500 inquiries monthly. Resources include Medline, Micromedex, and Cochrane databases, as well as a wide range of reference books. High-speed internet access and proximity of the Hospital library are added advantages. Our hardcopy journal collection consists the following:

American Journal of Health-system Pharmacy
Annals of Pharmacotherapy (formerly DICP)
Australian Adverse Drug Reaction Bulletin
Journal of Hospital Pharmacy & Practice (formerly Australias Journal of Hospital Pharmacy)
Australian Prescriber
Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
Drugs
Drugs and Therapy Perspectives
Lippincott's Hospital Pharmacy
Pharmacoeconomics
Pharmacotherapy
Prescrire International

In addition to providing evidence-based clinically-oriented verbal and written responses to inquiries, pharmacists at the DIS also provide research support for the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, participate in drug use evaluation and research activities, and participate at hospital and government level to promote rational drug use.

Teaching activities include instruction to undergraduates at the National University of Singapore and to pre-registration pharmacists, and staff development (in the form of continuing education for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy assistants alike). We organise educational lectures for doctors and nurses, as well as members of the public, on request.