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Moving up the ranks in hospital pharmacy

There are many opportunities and options to move up the hospital career ladder. Alison Worwood describes her journey from being a preregistration trainee to becoming a band 8b hospital pharmacist

A pharmacy career in the NHS

Would you like an exciting and challenging career with diverse opportunities for personal and professional progression? The NHS could be the perfect choice for your career as a pharmacist, writes Samantha Hlambelo

Moving from the community to hospital

Heena Bhakta recently moved from community pharmacy practice to hospital. In this article, she describes her experiences and the differences between hospital and community pharmacy

Step up in hospital pharmacy

The Structured Training and Experience for Pharmacists (STEP) programme is a unique collaboration of four NHS Trusts in South East London. In this article, Leonie Reid, John Minshull and Georgina Boon describe their experiences of the programme as they developed their careers in hospital pharmacy

Pharmacy after dark — life as a resident pharmacist at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Want to know what it is like to work as an on-call pharmacist? Nicola Williams describes her experiences and dispels myths about working an on-call shift

Moving from primary to secondary care

Taking up a post in a hospital environment has given Irram Irshad an unprecedented opportunity to extend her clinical skills 

Work as a non-medical prescriber

Paulash Haider has no regrets about leaving community pharmacy for a role in hospital where he follows up patients at his own outpatient clinics

Works of a falls prevention pharmacist

Even simple interventions by pharmacists can have an impact on patient care. Jeremy Robson, interface pharmacist for elderly medicine and orthopaedic surgery, discusses how pharmacists can help reduce the risk of falls among elderly patients

A hospital-based education pharmacist

With a passion for training preregistration trainees, Aamer Safdar writes about his different hospital careers and how he became a hospital-based education pharmacist

Postgraduate diploma for junior hospital pharmacists

This article describes some key diploma reforms that are likely to affect you if you are planning a career in hospital pharmacy in London, east England and south east England

Working as a resident pharmacist

Resident pharmacists perform the important task of covering pharmacy services outside normal working hours. Jodie Tyrrell explains more about the role of a resident pharmacist and Matthew O’Brien provides a survival guide

Heading to hospital?

John Minshull describes some of the things you might experience if you undertake your preregistration year in the hospital sector

A career as a specialist radiopharmacist

Radiopharmacists provide a clinical and technical pharmacy service within nuclear medicine. Zoë Gross outlines the work involved and the career path followed by some of the pharmacists working in this field

A move from HIV to haemato-oncology

Specialist haemato-oncology pharmacist Elizabeth Davies describes how an interest in HIV pharmacy early in her career progressed to haemato-oncology and independent prescribing

 

 

 

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