Mission Mater's Magazine - Flipbook - Page 14
Focus on Pharmacy
In the first of our series on Hospital Departments, 8Mission Mater9s9
focuses on Pharmacy and meets its head, Jennifer Brown and her team
Head: Jennifer Brown from Co.
Armagh and studied pharmacy in
Queen’s University Belfast. She
came to Dublin in 1996 to work as
a Clinical Pharmacist in the Mater
and was appointed Head of
Department in July 2020. She is
married to Ray and they have four
children.
Dept. Structure: Pharmacy
Department services are split into
six divisions’ management &
finance, dispensary, clinical, cancer
& aseptic manufacturing, medicines
information & drug safety.
Most professionally rewarding:
The expansion of pharmacist’s
professional roles across the
healthcare sector is welcomes and is
supported by improved utilisation
of our pharmacy technician
colleagues. In this, MMUH have led
the way
Most professionally
challenging: The COVID era was
a challenging time to work in
hospital but also, pharmaceutically
ground - breaking, looking back at
that time now.
Pharma Life: The best parts are
working with a fantastic pharmacy
team and where every day is a
learning day. The worst part is the
inevitable Bank Holiday Friday
drug shortage or batch recall!
Change: Reduce Human Resource
(HR) functions and ideally stabilise
the pharmacy workforce. This is a
universal healthcare issue!
Climate Change: Pharmacy are
also reviewing sustainability
opportunities as, for example,
medicines account for 25% of NHS
carbon emissions.
Picture: Pharmacy Aseptic
Compounding Unit
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