The future of pharmaceutical management with farmasitun

What is farmasitun?

Anett Bjørhovde summarises the farmasitun pilot as follows:

Modern technology, infrastructure and logistics solutions in new hospital buildings open up new opportunities and new ways of working. The purpose of pharmasitun is to increase patient safety, improve the quality of medication management and increase efficiency. We need to help nurses by freeing up their time for patient-centred tasks.

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New Oslo University Hospital (New OUS) is the common name for the hospital's six construction and development programmes: New Radiumhospitalet, Storbylegevakten, New Aker, New Rikshospitalet, New Security Psychiatry and OUS i Livsvitenskapsbygget. OUS is working to develop the organisation and adopt new operating concepts as well as realising gains and improving efficiency.

In the area of drug handling, OUS and Sykehusapotekene have co-operated to develop the concept of a pharmacy unit. Farmasitunet is the name of a central room where pharmacists and pharmacy technicians carry out specialised drug handling in the hospital. The aim is to increase the quality and safety of medication management and free up time for nurses.

The Farmasitun concept involves moving preparatory tasks from today's medicine rooms to the Farmasitun and hospital pharmacy. The concept also assumes a high degree of increased use of ready-to-use medicines, digitalisation, automation and future-oriented logistics solutions.

Anett Bjørhovde, pharmacist and project manager from Sykehusapotekene Oslo, talked about the work with pharmasitun, focusing on the 2030 targets and piloting at Radiumhospitalet in 2022.