The NCA pharmacy service provides a comprehensive range of services to ensure that medicines are used in a safe, effective and appropriate way.
The pharmacy staff are closely involved in all stages of medicines use from the cost-effective purchase of medicines to taking patient’s medication histories, dispensing and checking prescriptions through to assessing the outcomes of medicines in the clinical setting. The NCA pharmacy staff also actively support the clinical teams in the Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford Care Organisations in the introduction and review of drug treatments in hospital and community settings and the provision of the most cost-effective treatments within the NHS.
This is to ensure that the right medicine is used at the right time for the right condition.
Lindsay Harper - NCA Group Director of Pharmacy
E-mail : lindsay.harper@nca.nhs.uk
Tel: 0161 206 5219
PA: Gill Crawshaw. Tel: 0161 206 1050
Fairfield General Hospital |
Royal Oldham |
Rochdale Infirmary |
Salford Royal |
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Chris Poole Head of Pharmacy |
Mark Livingstone Head of Pharmacy |
Chris Poole Head of Pharmacy |
Gavin Leahy Operational Service Manager |
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Diane Elford Principal Pharmacist |
Lisa Turner Lead Clinical Pharmacist |
Diane Elford Principal Pharmacist |
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Lynne Taylor Chief Pharmacy Technician |
Joanne Appleton Chief Pharmacy Technician |
Lynne Taylor Chief Pharmacy Technician |
Jake Ballinger Chief Pharmacy Technician |
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The NCA pharmacy service comprises four different inpatient dispensaries, one in each of the care organisations in the NCA.
Fairfield General Hospital inpatient pharmacy
Contact details: 0161 778 3558
Opening Hours: 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday
8am to 4pm weekends and Bank holidays
Dispensary open 10am-1pm on Christmas Day.
Out-of-hours: for urgent medicines supply requests contact the on-call pharmacist via switchboard (hospital supply requests only).
Royal Oldham inpatient pharmacy
Contact details: 0161 627 8961
Opening Hours: 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday
9am to 4pm weekends and Bank holidays.
Dispensary open 10am-1pm on Christmas Day.
Out-of-hours: for urgent medicines supply requests contact the on-call pharmacist via switchboard (hospital supply requests only).
Rochdale Infirmary Inpatient pharmacy
Contact details: 01706 517308
Opening Hours: 8:45am to 5pm Monday to Friday
Weekends: Service from Fairfield General Hospital
Out-of-hours: for urgent medicines supply requests contact the on-call pharmacist via switchboard (hospital supply requests only)
Salford Royal Inpatient Pharmacy
Contact details: 0161 2065369
Opening Hours: 9am to 8pm Mon-Sun
Out-of-hours: for urgent medicines supply requests contact the on-call pharmacist via switchboard (hospital supply requests only).
Bank holiday opening times for Dec 2024 are as follows:
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Tuesday 24th December |
Normal Working day 9am to 7pm |
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Wednesday 25th December |
Bank Holiday Service 9am to 5pm |
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Thursday 26th December |
Bank Holiday Service 9am to 7pm |
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Tuesday 31st December |
Normal Working day 9am to 7pm |
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Wednesday 1st January |
Bank Holiday Service 9am to 7pm |
Each of the Trusts hospital sites offers outpatient dispensing of hospital prescriptions.
At Fairfield General hospital and Rochdale Infirmary, outpatients prescriptions are dispensed by the inpatient pharmacy.
At Royal Oldham and Salford Royal, we are partnered by Lloyds Pharmacy which provides our outpatient dispensing services.
Rowlands outpatient pharmacy - Royal Oldham
Contact details: 0161 622 0962
Opening hours: 8.30am-6pm Monday to Friday. Closed Saturday and Sunday and Bank holidays.
Rowlands outpatient pharmacy - Salford Royal
Contact details: 0161 2061388/0161 7895924
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 8am until 6pm and Saturday 9am until 12noon. Closed Sunday and Bank holidays.
The two Aseptics Services Units at Salford Royal and Royal Oldham Hospitals prepare injectable medicines for use in the Trust for named patients. Products made include cytotoxic chemotherapy, antibiotics, clinical trials and parenteral nutrition (intravenous feeding) for adults and babies.
The products are made in controlled cleanrooms and all staff undergo specialised training to be able to work in Aseptics Services. All products are made to national quality standards through manufacturing practice guidelines.
The units are inspected regularly by NHS Quality Assurance North West. The unit at Salford Royal also has a Manufacturing Specials (MS) Licence from the MHRA which allows for batch manufacture and supply to departments including Critical Care and Accident and Emergency to enable quick access to some critical medications. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) inspects the site regularly to ensure compliance with the terms of the MS Licence.
Royal Oldham Aseptics Service
Contact details: Cath Rolls (Aseptic Service Manager), Rachel O’Leary (Head of Production)
Telephone Number: 0161 627 8970
Opening times: 9am-5pm Monday to Friday
Weekend and out-of-hours service: On-call service 10am-2pm Saturday and Sunday. To access please contact the on-call pharmacist for the Oldham site. Bank holidays opening times are subject to local agreement and communicated separately near the date.
Salford Royal Aseptics Service
Contact details: Charlotte Ollerenshaw-Ward (Aseptic Service Manager), Claire Edgar (Deputy Aseptic Service Manager), Michelle Hitchen (Head of Production)
Telephone Number: 0161 206 5227
Opening times: 8am-6pm Monday to Friday
Weekend and out-of-hours service: On-call service 10am-2pm Saturday and Sunday. To access please contact the on-call pharmacist for the Salford site. Bank holidays opening times are subject to local agreement and communicated separately near the date.
The NCA pharmacy service provides a range of specialist medications directly to the comfort of the patient’s home. There are two pharmacy Homecare teams based at Salford Royal hospital and Fairfield General hospital.
By working closely with the clinical teams and external providers, the teams can ensure that patients receive exceptional treatment without needing to attend the trusts hospital sites.
The Salford pharmacy Homecare team looks after patients under the care of Salford Care organisation and the Fairfield pharmacy Homecare team looks after patients under the care of the Bury, Rochdale and Oldham Care organisations. The contact details of each team can be found below:
Salford pharmacy Homecare team
Lead pharmacist: Zoe Harries
Lead technician: Andrew Peers
Contact details: 0161 206 8142/61091/61092/66115
Fairfield pharmacy Homecare team
Lead pharmacist: Hafsa Sattar
Lead technician: Faiza Khan
Contact details: 0161 778 2202
The pharmacy clinical trials teams in the NCA work together with trust colleagues and external sponsors to support a range of commercial and non-commercial studies involving investigational medicinal products. These trials are evaluating innovative new treatments across a broad range of diseases and give our patients both the chance to be a part of the development of such treatments and the opportunity to potentially benefit from access to these novel medicines.
The NCA clinical trials pharmacy teams are responsible for the management and dispensing of the investigational products, ensuring good clinical practice is followed to protect the safety of the patients and the integrity of the trials.
There are two pharmacy clinical trials teams in the NCA, one based at Fairfield General hospital and one based at Salford Royal hospital.
Salford pharmacy Clinical trials team
Clnical Trials pharmacists: Claire Keatley and Gemma Unitt
Lead technician: Anne-Marie Peers
Contact details: 0161 2066002
Fairfield pharmacy Clinical trials team
Lead pharmacist: Sophie Hovenden
Lead technician: Nicola Evans
Contact details: 0161 778 2203
The NCA Pharmacy Team have a number of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians working within community services across all the NCA Care Organisations. The Pharmacy Teams work within the community, intermediate care homes, care homes and in the Salford GP practices. The Community Teams work closely with the hospital teams and a number rotate between the hospital and the community gaining experience in both sectors. The Community Pharmacy staff support patients in their homes and in the care homes to take medicines safely, ensuring they are on the correct medicines. This is vitally important when patients are discharged from hospital as often patient may not be prescribed all the correct medicines in the Community.
The community pharmacy team provide support around medicines issues to other professionals working in the community such as GPs, nurses, physios, podiatrists, SLT etc and also work closely with the ICB Medicines Optimisation Teams to provide community health services.
Across the NCA there are several cross-sector Foundation Pharmacists and Student Pharmacy Technicians working between the hospital and GP Practice which prepares the students for their career when qualified and allows them to make informed decisions about their future.
Heywood Middleton and Rochdale community services
Wolstenholme– intermediate care unit on Rochdale infirmary site
Tudor court – Intermediate care unit in Heywood
Rapid response
Contact : Bhavika Girdhar, Senior pharmacist – Planned and integrated care Bhavika.girdhar@nca.nhs.uk
Oldham community services
Butler Green Enhanced Intermediate Care Unit, Wallis Street, Chadderton, Oldham.
Also outreach services at: Medlock Court Care Home, Medlock Way, Lees, Oldham (care home managed by the Miocare Group)
Contact: Jack Marston – Intermediate Care Pharmacist. Jack.marston@nca.nhs.uk
Bury community services
Killelea House, Brandlesholme Road, Bury (jointly managed with Bury Council)
Pharmacy team also support the Bury Rapid Response Service (based at Textile Hall, Manchester Road, Bury)
Contacts: Katherina Alonso / Suzanne Williams – Intermediate Care Pharmacists. Katherina.alonso@nca.nhs.uk / Suzanne.williams@nca.nhs.uk
Salford community services
Bevan Unit Intermediate Care, Stott Lane, Salford
Salford Care Homes Medical Practice, St. James' House, Pendleton Way, Salford. Email the pharmacy care homes team: meds@nca.nhs.uk
Home First - St. James' House, Pendleton Way, Salford - email the pharmacy Home First team -medsreablement@nca.nhs.uk
Dedicated pharmacist support is also available within Urgent Care and Hospital at Home based within St. James' House and in other community services roles within Salford
Greater Manchester Medicines Management Group - http://gmmmg.nhs.uk/
British National Formulary - https://bnf.nice.org.uk/