Telephone: (0191) 282 0395 – Business Manager
Newcastle Specials is a MHRA approved pharmacy production unit. It manufactures unlicensed specials for the Newcastle Hospitals and supplies a range of high quality cost-effective products to other NHS Trusts, private healthcare providers, retail pharmacies and commercial organisations.
Based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, our pharmacy production unit is a purpose-built facility and NHS lead unit status in the North East of England. Our talented team of over 40 highly experienced staff manufacture more than 180,000 individual dose units of pharmaceuticals every year.
High-quality products
With four specialist manufacturing zones, including two for aseptics with isolator technology, we perform numerous types of manufacture including:
- non sterile
- cytotoxic chemotherapy
- parenteral nutrition bags
- centralised intravenous additives service
- large and small volume terminally sterilised and aseptic manufacture
Our technical team works alongside expert clinicians to support a wide range of patient needs, delivering high-quality manufactured product to exacting requirements – from highly specialist medicines to high risk patient-ready intravenous products.
Range of products
We produce a wide range of sterile and non-sterile dose forms, including:
- Ointments & creams
- External paints & lotions
- Sachets & capsules
- Oral liquids
- Oral medicated lollipops
- Suppositories
- Eye drops
- Nasal drops
- Antibiotic injections and infusions
- IV infusions and syringes
- Patient Controlled Analgesia solutions in syringes
- Cytotoxics (including dose banded range)
All our products are listed on the NHS Pro-File product information database www.pro-file.nhs.uk , which helps users identify and source unlicensed specials. Access is restricted to registered NHS pharmacy staff.
Find out more information about the Newcastle Specials Pharmacy Production Unit.
Contact us
For ordering and enquiries on product range and availability:
Telephone: (0191) 282 0395
