Hospital pharmacy services
Hospital pharmacists operate as part of your multidisciplinary healthcare team and are involved in monitoring medication usage, counselling patients, providing drug information and advice to health professionals and the community, conducting clinical trials and preparing products for patient use.
St Stephen’s pharmacy services are provided by Slade Pharmacy. With close to 60 years’ experience in hospital pharmacy services, Slade Pharmacy is here to make sure you not only receive the right medicines but to support your health and wellbeing.
The dedicated Slade Pharmacy team are committed to bringing professional high-quality medication related services to the patients, families, visitors and staff of St Stephen’s Hospital.
These services include:
- Timely and safe supply of inpatient and discharge medications.
- Specialised and special access scheme medications (including oncology).
- Clinical review of medications to optimise the safety and efficacy of medication use.
- Education, information and support about your prescribed medications.
- Support for up-to-date and high-quality medication-related decisions through medication advice and information.
- Individualised re-packaging of tablets, capsules and injections to enable the use of the safest methods of medication administration for hospital inpatients.
- Over-the-counter medication and general pharmacy items.
Location and hours
- Opening hours: Slade Pharmacy is available Monday to Friday (8am-5pm); and Saturday and public holidays (8am-1pm). The pharmacy is closed on Sundays.
- Phone: 07 4120 6140.
- Address: Slade Pharmacy is located within St Stephen’s Hospital, 1 Medical Place, Urraween, QLD, 4655.