KPJ Healthcare Bhd, which employs 96 pharmacists filling 1.7 million prescriptions annually, is committed to ensuring that the role of pharmacists in its network of hospitals nationwide continue to evolve in tandem with patients’ needs.
In addition to daily procurement, quality control, counselling patients and routine management of medicines, pharmacists today are involved in specialised compounding services such as aseptic dispensing for chemotherapy, and even prescription interventions and medication therapy management reviews in order to minimise errors.