Information for Patients
Pharmacy/Prescription
Chiba University Hospital includes laboratory test results on prescriptions for pharmacies outside the hospital
- Writing laboratory test results on a prescription enables patients to take prescription drugs safely and correctly. Please be sure to provide a page indicating the results to a pharmacy that takes health insurance (health insurance pharmacy, hereinafter).
- When faxing a prescription to a health insurance pharmacy, please be sure to fax the test results page as well.
Chiba University in principle issues prescriptions for patients to pick up drugs at pharmacies outside the hospital
- In principle, Chiba University Hospital issues prescriptions for patients to receive drugs at outside pharmacies. Please receive your prescription at a clinical department and bring it to a health insurance pharmacy outside the hospital.
- Please confirm your health insurance number in the designated section in the prescription. If the number is not written there, please present your prescription when you come to process your payment at Window 1 on the first floor. We will write your number on the prescription.
- The prescription is effective for four days. Be sure to receive your drugs at a pharmacy within four days of your hospital visit.
- You can fax your prescription to an outside pharmacy from a corner on the first floor. Please use the fax after confirming the pharmacy can receive faxed prescriptions.
Advantages of providing prescriptions for outside pharmacies
- You do not have to carry prescription drugs after being examined or treated at the hospital.
- You can pick them up at your usual pharmacy near your home or workplace.
- At outside pharmacies, you can receive explanations about allergies and side effects that certain drugs may cause, as well as interactions between drugs you have taken before or currently are taking.
- You can fax your prescription to an outside pharmacy at a designated corner on the first floor.
Fax corner to send a prescription to a pharmacy
For patients who are asked to pick up drugs inside the hospital
(First basement floor at the Center for Outpatient Health)
Patients who are asked to receive prescription drugs inside the hospital receive their medicine at the Pharmacy Window on the first basement floor at the Center for Outpatient Health. Those holding a medicine notebook or a narcotics prescription are requested to present it at the window as soon as possible upon your arrival because pharmacy staff must fill in the necessary information or carry out required checking, etc.
Pharmacy hours and pick-up window
| Pharmacy hours | Pick-up window |
|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on weekdays | Pharmacy Window on the first basement floor of the Center for Outpatient Health |
Pharmacy Window (Map of the Center for Outpatient Health's first basement floor)
About collecting used injection needles and puncture needles for glucometers
Used needles are classified as medical waste. Please do not dispose of them as general household garbage. Please deposit them in a container such as a plastic bottle and bring them to your clinical department or the Division of Pharmacy.
Also, some dispensing pharmacies collect spent needles. Please ask your pharmacy about needle disposal.
