Course Admissions Department of Pharmacological Sciences Clinical Services Clinical services are provided at Freeman Hospital NHS Trust and the Wolfson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Victoria Infirmary. The unit participates in the rota for reception of general medicine admissions at Freeman Hospital.
All consultants are interested in patients with general medical problems.
All four consultants are interested in clinical problems arising from drug treatment. This includes the management of polypharmacy and of adverse drug reactions. All patients with poisoning admitted to Freeman Hospital come under the care of the unit, which has close ties to other facilities, including the renal unit and local social work and psychiatric services. An acute stroke unit is housed on Ward 13, Freeman Hospital. Dr Ford also offers an outpatient service for patients with problems relating to cerebrovascular disease.