Pharmacy Department

The Pharmacy Department of Dongguan People's Hospital is a medical technical department integrating pharmaceutical care, medication management, research and teaching. It comprises the Clinical Pharmacy Section, the Pharmacy Services Section and the Pharmacy Intravenous Admixture Service, and is responsible for the hospital's medication management, drug supply, clinical pharmacy, research and teaching. With the hospital leadership's attention and support, the department has made considerable progress. In August 2017, it became a training centre for the first cohort of trainees in standardised clinical pharmacist training under the Clinical Pharmacy Branch of the Chinese Medical Association. In September 2018, it became a Demonstration Base for Rational Clinical Medication Use of the China Medicine Education Association; in August 2020, a National Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Sentinel Site; in December 2020, a Dongguan Key Traditional Chinese Medicine Specialty in TCM Clinical Pharmacy; in January 2024, a Clinical Pharmacy Key TCM Specialty under the Guangdong Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine's 13th Five-Year Plan; in November 2024, an Intravenous Admixture Pharmacist Training Base of the Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association; in December 2024, a Dongguan Key Traditional Chinese Medicine Specialty in Chinese Materia Medica; in May 2025, a Guangdong Clinical Comprehensive Drug Evaluation Base; and in December 2025, the Dongguan Key Laboratory for Drug Research and Precision Evaluation. The department also places great importance on pharmaceutical research and has achieved notable results in recent years. It has received research project awards at various levels, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, the Guangdong Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Dongguan Social Development Science and Technology Projects. It has published a series of papers in SCI-indexed journals, Chinese core journals and core science and technology journals. The Pharmacy Services Section comprises the central Western-medicine pharmacy at Honglou Campus, the Western-medicine pharmacy of the Central Outpatient Department, the pharmacy of the Central Outpatient Intravenous Admixture Service, the Western-medicine pharmacy at Puji Campus, the Western-medicine pharmacy of the Second Outpatient Department, the Chinese-medicine pharmacies at Honglou and Puji campuses, and the Western- and Chinese-medicine pharmacies of the First Outpatient Department. It mainly formulates and implements the hospital's medicine quality management policies. It manages the full cycle from acceptance and warehouse entry to storage and use, with digital pharmaceutical logistics and automated pharmacy management, to ensure drug quality and safety and meet patients' medication needs. The Clinical Pharmacy Section has clinical pharmacist, pharmaceutical information and pharmaceutical laboratory teams. The clinical pharmacist team is primarily responsible for rational medication use throughout the hospital. It participates in clinical pharmacotherapy in various ways and assists doctors in designing and adjusting treatment regimens. It runs online and in-person pharmacy clinics to provide pharmaceutical care and medication guidance, and teaches and supervises clinical pharmacist trainees. The pharmaceutical information team mainly develops digital systems for clinical medication management, using information technology to standardise prescribing and medication practices and promote rational use. The pharmaceutical laboratory team mainly undertakes pharmacogenetic testing, therapeutic drug monitoring and applications for research projects. The Pharmacy Intravenous Admixture Service is principally responsible for centralised preparation of intravenous medicines at Honglou Campus. Pharmacists oversee the centralised preparation model, with digital closed-loop management of prescriptions and medicines and full traceability to ensure the quality and safety of intravenous admixtures. With patients at the centre of its work, the Pharmacy Department is committed to providing safe, efficient and precise pharmaceutical care.