Christina Yuen Ki Leung
University of Hong Kong, China
Title: Advanced clinical pharmacy system in a reformed hospital in China
Biography
Biography: Christina Yuen Ki Leung
Abstract
HKU-SZH has adopted the good pharmacy practices from the West and has implemented an advanced clinical pharmacy system within Pharmacy Department. We hope to use near-patients and near-doctors approach to provide high quality of clinical pharmacy service to patients and the healthcare professionals to ensure safe and effective of drugs use. The clinical pharmacists join the doctor-led ward rounds regularly on selected clinical areas such as ICU and NICU. For all newly admitted in-patients, the clinical pharmacists take drug histories and carry out medication reconciliation, and the information is recorded in the electronic prescribing system. They also check all the in-patient prescriptions for clinical appropriateness using approved and updated reference sources. In addition, pharmacists involve actively in the warfarin patient counselling service and stroke clinical pathway patient care contributions on the wards. Since early 2015, clinical pharmacists have participated in the smoking cessation clinic, paediatric and adult respiratory out-patient clinics, diabetic clinic to provide patient counselling services. In addition, clinical pharmacists play a role in the cardiac rehabilitation centre to deliver cardiac drugs educational talk. Furthermore, clinical pharmacists have delivered talks to patients regarding drugs use for smoking cessation, safe use of insulin injections, effective use of inhalation devices, and medication safety in children such as use of oral syringes and tablet cutter in the out-patient forum. All these quality improvement plans are to enhance medication safety and optimistation of drugs. Clinical pharmacists in China find this experience rewarding and we think this cannot be achieved without an effective multi-disciplinary teamwork.
