Monitoring current medication ordering trend and cost at the clinical training centre (CTC)

The hospital pharmacy store (HPS) is one of the important departments in a hospital setting and it plays a crucial role for supplying medications, surgical and medical products. A strategic planning for logistic storage of medicine and workspace are required to provide efficient and effective services. Medications purchasing contributes significantly to health care budget of developing countries like Malaysia. The study has been conducted at Clinical Training Centre (CTC). A total of 174 medicines has been purchase for the usage in CTC for year 2015. From this number, 91 medications were purchased once while 83 medicines were purchased twice. 12 medications three times, 4 medicines has been purchase four times, and only 1 medicine is purchased five times throughout year 2015. 25 medications have price range between RM100.00-RM199.99 while 7 medications have price more than RM200.00. Improper management of medication can lead to increase in medication cost thus consume high subsidy of the healthcare centre. Besides, it also leads to shortage of the medication. A proper management of medication in CTC can solved this problem.