Our compounding pharmacists create personalised medicines with patient-specific products, doses, ingredients or flavours.
That means you can avoid certain allergens, tastes or textures or maintain supply during medication shortages.
Our compounding pharmacists create personalised medicines with patient-specific products, doses, ingredients or flavours.
That means you can avoid certain allergens, tastes or textures or maintain supply during medication shortages.
Compounding is a valuable service for patients who need individualised medications.
Historically, nearly all medications were made to order for individual patients. Pharmacists were highly skilled in the art of compounding, carefully measuring, grinding and mixing medicines by hand using traditional tools and techniques.
It’s much more high-tech now but, at Buckley Street Compounding Pharmacy, we enjoy using these traditional pharmacy skills to deliver personalised care to our community.
Talk to us about how compounding could help you.
These days, most medications are mass-produced with a ‘typical’ patient in mind. But many patients are not typical. They may be very young or very old, struggle to swallow pills, be allergic to some ingredients or just hate banana flavour!
Some patients require a dosage strength that is not commercially available.
Removing allergens like gluten, lactose or food colourings.
Turning pills into liquids or wafers, thick ointments into light creams, injections into capsules.
Changing the taste or texture of a medication can be particularly helpful for young or neurodiverse patients.
Compounding allows pharmacists to recreate discontinued or unavailable medications to avoid interruptions in treatment.
Sometimes, multiple medications can be combined into a single dosage form for easier administration.
Make your medications easier.
Compounded medications are made using pharmaceutical-grade ingredients in specially licensed pharmacies (like ours!).
Making your medicines may involve:
Our principal pharmacist, Andy Nguyen has undertaken additional training in compounding and makes your medication to order.
We welcome enquiries from prescribers, aged care providers or community members about how our compounding service could make medications easier for you or your patients.