A new concept in pharmacy design

Erasmus MC Pharmacy A15

When the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam decided to build an advanced hospital pharmacy, EGM architecten and Royal HaskoningDHV created an innovative design. Good project collaboration was key to the build’s success.

Moving the drug manufacturing department 

The internationally renowned Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam is using an integral approach to build for its future. The university’s medical centre, which offers academic medical care, medical education and scientific research, is becoming the biggest ‘drive-in’ hospital in the world, with quick and comfortable accessibility. However, it was decided to move the drug manufacturing department in the hospital pharmacy (where a great diversity of drugs is prepared for some very specific patient groups) to a more central site in the country, freeing it from both the technical and space limitations that were present in the existing building.

Hospital pharmacy

‘As an academic hospital, we want to maintain our own control of research, education and care for the benefit of specific patient groups,’ says Dr András Vermes, Erasmus MC hospital pharmacist and head of drug manufacturing at Erasmus MC. ‘This also means supplying children, who represent a relatively small patient group, with the requisite medicines they need but which are not commercially available.


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