Pharmacy MPharm: Facilities

Central to your learning is our new pharmacy practice laboratory, designed to allow you to experience what it is like in a real pharmacy and finesse your skills before you start working in the health service. Based at our Penrhyn Road campus, the £420,000 centre includes:

• 40 medicine-dispensing stations;
• a pharmacy counter;
• a consulting area; and
• computers connected to the Nexphase system (used in many local pharmacies).

You practice your people and diagnostic skills through role plays, taking it in turns to play the patient. Other role plays include advising doctors (usually played by experienced tutors) on how to deal with prescribing errors and clinical problems.

When dispensing prescriptions you have to make all the same checks that you would make in a real pharmacy, including:

• analysing prescriptions to check they have been filled in correctly by doctors;
• checking clinical issues such as how one medicine might interact with another; and
• advising pretend patients on how to take their prescriptions.

There is a wide range of facilities for practical work at our Penrhyn Road campus, where this course is based. You will have access to a modern environment with the latest equipment, including:

• the £9.8 million Eadweard Muybridge building with state-of the art laboratories;
• specialist equipment, such as:
  • gas and liquid chromatography;
  • electron microscopy;
  • a range of spectrometers, including mass spectrometers, infrared spectrometers and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers;
  • nuclear science equipment;
  • thermal analysis;
  • x-ray diffractometers; and
  • electrochemical analysis;
• computing laboratories and a team of IT technicians to offer assistance

The Learning Resources Centre offers:

• subject libraries, plus a free inter-library loan scheme to other libraries in the Greater London area;
• online database subscriptions; and
• a growing selection of resource materials.