Freeman: 0191 223 1036 / Royal Victoria Infirmary: 0191 282 4488
The inpatient dispensaries at the Freeman Hospital, Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Northern Centre for Cancer Care are staffed and managed by Newcastle Hospitals’ staff.
Locations and opening hours
Freeman Hospital inpatient dispensary
The dispensary is located in the Pharmacy Department at the Freeman Hospital near to Clinic E in the Main Outpatient Department.
| Monday to Friday | 8:30am – 6:30pm |
| Saturday | 9:00am – 4.30pm |
| Sunday | 9.00am – 4.30pm |
| Bank holidays | 9:00am – 4.30pm |
Royal Victoria Infirmary inpatient dispensary
The dispensary is located on the ground floor of New Victoria Wing round the back of the Amigo shop.
| Monday to Friday | 8:30am – 6:00pm |
| Saturday | 9:00am – 4:30pm |
| Sunday | 9:00am – 4:30pm |
| Bank holidays | 9:00am – 4.30pm |
Who can use our service?
Our inpatient dispensary services provide medicines to the Newcastle Hospitals’ wards and clinics, and to some of our affiliated services. We supply medicines for individual patient treatment during their stay in hospital, and for discharge when patients are ready to go home.
The dispensary at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care deals with clinical trial prescriptions only.
Non-trial prescriptions for Northern Centre for Cancer Care patients are dispensed at either the Freeman Hospital inpatient dispensary or the outpatient pharmacy.
We also provide an outpatient dispensing and repeat prescription service for a limited number of specialised medicines that cannot be supplied through by our outpatient pharmacies or through community pharmacies. Your consultant or nurse specialist will let you know if you need to use this service.
You can contact the appropriate inpatient dispensary to request your medicines if we hold a repeat prescription for you. Otherwise you should order your prescription via your nurse specialist or consultant’s secretary.
Outpatient dispensing
You can find details of these services at the Outpatient dispensaries page.
We are unable to dispense NHS prescriptions from your GP (FP10), NHS prescriptions from hospitals intended for dispensing at a retail pharmacy (FP10HP), or hospital prescriptions from other hospital Trusts.
Contact us
Freeman Inpatient Dispensary
Telephone: 0191 223 1036
RVI Inpatient Dispensary
Telephone: 0191 282 4488
