On-call pharmacy services: a perspective from the Royal Alexandra Hospital (NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde) and comparison with NHS Tayside, Scotland.

Objective: To quantify the number and types of calls received by on-call pharmacists at the Royal Alexandra Hospital from January 2016 to February 2018.

Method: A retrospective analysis of the on-call log in an Excel spreadsheet was conducted. Excel was used to analyse the data recorded by on-call pharmacists during the out-of-hours period.