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Students Guide to Hospital Pharmacy Internships In Students Guide to Hospital Pharmacy Internships in NSW Written and compiled by SHPA NSW Branch 1 First Published 2014 Second Edition Published 2016 Third Edition Published 2017 © Copyright 2017 This publication is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part mat be reproduced by any process or placed in a computer memory without written permission. Any assembled extracts each attract individual copyright and enquiries about reproduction of this material should be addressed to the appropriate publishers. Enquiries about all other material should be made to the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia New South Wales Branch 2 Contents NSW Hospitals ............................................................................................................ 6 NSW Public Hospitals .........................................................................................................6 NSW Private Hospitals ........................................................................................................7 How to Apply .............................................................................................................. 8 NSW Public Hospitals .........................................................................................................8 NSW Private Hospitals ........................................................................................................9 Preparing for the Interview ....................................................................................... 11 What SHPA can offer you .......................................................................................... 12 About the Hospitals .................................................................................................. 14 New South Wales Metropolitan Health Districts ........................................................ 14 Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) ....................................................................... 14 Gosford & Wyong Hospital ............................................................................................... 14 Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) ............................................................ 16 Shoalhaven District Memoral Hospital .............................................................................. 16 Wollongong Hospital ........................................................................................................ 17 Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) ................................................... 18 Blue Mountains Hospital .................................................................................................. 18 Northern Sydney Local Health District ............................................................................... 19 Royal North Shore & Ryde Hospital ................................................................................... 19 South Eastern Sydney Local Health District ....................................................................... 20 Prince of Wales Hospital ................................................................................................... 20 St George Hospital............................................................................................................ 21 Sutherland Hospital .......................................................................................................... 22 Sydney Hospital & Sydney Eye Hospital ............................................................................. 23 South Western Sydney Local Health District ...................................................................... 25 Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital .......................................................................................... 25 Campbelltown Hospital .................................................................................................... 26 Liverpool Hospital ............................................................................................................ 27 Sydney Local Health District.............................................................................................. 28 Cantebury Hospital ........................................................................................................... 28 Concord Repatriation General Hospital ............................................................................. 29 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ............................................................................................. 30 Western Sydney Local Health District ................................................................................ 32 Blacktown-Mount Druitt Hospital ..................................................................................... 32 3 New South Wales Rural Health Districts .................................................................... 32 Hunter New England Local Health District ......................................................................... 32 Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital .................................................................................... 33 John Hunter Hospital ........................................................................................................ 34 Maitland Hospital ............................................................................................................. 35 Tamworth Hospital ........................................................................................................... 36 Mid North Coast Local Health District ............................................................................... 36 Coffs Harbour Base Hospital ............................................................................................. 36 Port Macquarie Hospital ................................................................................................... 37 Murrumbidgee Local Health District.................................................................................. 38 Wagga Wagga Base Hospital ............................................................................................. 38 Northern New South Wales Local Health District ............................................................... 39 Lismore Hospital .............................................................................................................. 39 The Tweed Hospital .......................................................................................................... 40 Southern New South Wales Local Health District ............................................................... 41 Moruya District Hospital ................................................................................................... 41 Goulburn Base Hospital .................................................................................................... 42 Western New South Wales Local Health District ................................................................ 43 Dubbo Base Hospital ........................................................................................................ 43 Orange Health Service ...................................................................................................... 43 Sydney Children's Hospital Network ................................................................................. 44 The Children’s Hospital at Westmead ............................................................................... 44 St Vincent’s Hospital Network .......................................................................................... 46 St Vincent’s Hospital......................................................................................................... 46 St Joseph’s Hospital .......................................................................................................... 47 Justice and Forensic Mental Health Network ..................................................................... 48 4 Disclaimer This Guide has been created as an aide to support students applying for NSW hospital pharmacy internship positions. Individuals reading this document should conduct their own research into each job application. The SHPA NSW branch takes no responsibility for updating this document or for student’s not receiving interviews for their job applications on the basis of this Guide. Always address the selection criteria for each individual job application. Last updated 18-07-17 Acknowledgements The SHPA NSW Branch would like to acknowledge the NSW Pharmacy Advisors Group, current NSW Hospital Intern Pharmacists and Directors of Pharmacy who assisted in reviewing the information in this Guide. 5 NSW Hospitals NSW Public Hospitals NSW Health is responsible for managing and funding health services in a wide range of settings, from multi-purpose health centres in remote communities to large metropolitan teaching hospitals in the public sector. There are more than 220 public hospitals and health services in NSW, which provide free healthcare to Australian citizens and permanent residents. Services provided at public hospitals may include emergency care, elective and emergency surgery, medical treatment, maternity services and rehabilitation programs. NSW public hospitals are broken down into eight Local Health Districts (LHDs) that cover the Sydney metropolitan region and seven LHDs that cover rural and regional New South Wales. In addition, two
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