At Gertrude’s Pharmacy Services, we go beyond dispensing medication —we ensure quality, safety, accuracy, and expert guidance in every prescription. Quality healthcare for children.

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most serious threats to children’s health globally. When antibiotics stop working, children bear a disproportionate burden. How antibiotics are prescribed and dispensed today determines whether they will still work tomorrow.

Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital has been formally recognized for implementing an effective antimicrobial stewardship programme through GAMSAS, the Global Antimicrobial Stewardship Accreditation Scheme, an initiative of the British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. This places us among a select group of institutions globally that meet this standard.

Our pharmacy-led Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme (ASP) is one of the most established pediatric stewardship programmes in the region. It is built on a simple principle: every child should receive the right antimicrobial, at the right dose, for the right duration, for the right reason.

Medication questions do not follow clinic hours. Poisoning emergencies do not wait. The Medicines and Poisons Information Centre provides fast, reliable, expert-led guidance to healthcare professionals and the public whenever it is needed.

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• Poisoning Emergencies: Immediate clinical guidance on toxic exposures including household chemicals, excess medication ingestion and environmental toxins. Advice is evidence-based and provided in real time.
  
• Medication queries: Guidance on dosing, compatibility, administration and drug interactions. Whether the question comes from a nurse on the ward or a parent at home, the standard of our response does not change.
  
• Caregiver support: We help families understand what a medicine is for, how to give it correctly, what to expect and when to seek help. This is part of the clinical continuum, not a side service.
  

Our pharmacy staff are trained to respond to a wide range of pharmaceutical concerns. The pediatric context is always central to the guidance they provide.

Unused and expired medications are a safety risk at home and an environmental hazard when disposed of incorrectly. Flushing medicines down a drain introduces pharmaceutical compounds into water systems. Leaving them within reach puts children at risk.

Our disposal service closes this gap. It reflects a broader commitment to responsible pharmaceutical stewardship that goes beyond the hospital.

• Return any unused or expired medication: Bring it to any Gertrude’s pharmacy or medical center. Our team will handle disposal safely and in line with pharmaceutical waste regulations.
• Environmental responsibility: Medicines returned to us are disposed of through proper pharmaceutical waste channels. We take that responsibility seriously.

Keep all medication stored safely and away from children at all times.

Pediatric medicine faces a persistent gap. Most commercially manufactured medicines are designed for adults. They come in tablet form, at adult doses, in formulations that many children cannot swallow or tolerate.

Compounding closes that gap.

Our compounding service develops individualized pharmaceutical preparations for children when no suitable commercial product exists or when the available formulation does not meet the child’s clinical needs. This includes weight-based dose adjustments, flavored liquids for children who cannot swallow tablets and formulations suited to the patient’s age and developmental stage.

• Tailored Formulations: We develop preparations that meet the clinical need. Every compounded product is made specifically for the patient it is prescribed for.
  
• Clinical collaboration: Our pharmacists work directly with the prescribing clinician to ensure compounded formulations are clinically appropriate, therapeutically sound and safely prepared.