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Chronic Dispensing Unit
The Western Cape Department of Health was challenged with a significant burden of chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, and high blood pressure, which negatively affect people’s quality of life and leads to high expenditure on medicines. Access to medicine needed to be increased to promote adherence to treatment. Pharmacy personnel were a scarce resource and another method of dispensing and providing care needed to be found. The solution was the Chronic Dispensing Unit, where an outsourced centralised service collects prescriptions from health facilities, dispenses the medicines into temper-evident patient-medicine parcels.
Date: 2026/06/29
Version: 0.1
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Public Health Solutions
Pharmacy Solutions
Using Pharmacy Automation to Improve Service Delivery in a High-Volume HIV Treatment Facility
Pharmacy Automation at Helen Joseph Hospital’s Thembalethu Clinic was an initiative between Right to Care, a NGO and Helen Joseph Hospital. Its aim was to demonstrate how pharmacy automation can improve service delivery as well as supporting the scale up of HIV services at Thembalethu Clinic (Helen Joseph Hospital), one of the largest HIV programmes in the country.
Date: 2026/06/29
Version: 0.1
Tags:
Public Health Innovations
Pharmacy Solutions