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Robots have roll in NHS pharmacy teams that supply Paisley's Royal Alexandra Hospital

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NHS bosses have drafted in robots to help busy pharmacy teams.They have shelled out for a mammoth robot, similar to packing technology employed by internet giant Amazon, to help busy teams supplying medication to sites including Paisley's Royal Alexandra Hospital.It comes after NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's Pharmacy Distribution Centre, which processes around 100,000 items every week, was also tasked with additional pandemic strain - including sending some 72,000 vaccines to clinics every week.The robotic technology has helped ensure patients continue to get the medicine they need.The team's herculean efforts are now being boosted by artificial technology, as teams are backed by a mammoth robot storage and distribution machine, which automates around 80 per cent of the workload.Don't miss the latest headlines from around Renfrewshire.

Sign up to our newsletters here.The machine is believed to be the largest of its kind operating in the UK.At any one time the centre carries some 10,000 lines of medicines, which remain manually distributed.Claire Aliyar, Chief Pharmacy Technician at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said: "The team have been working really hard throughout the pandemic – especially at the very beginning, because it just happened so fast.

We tried to get as much stock in as we possibly could before it all started and we did manage to get some, but it was going out as soon as it came in."She also praised the team's response to the pandemic.

adding: "The team were fabulous, they increased their working hours and came in for extra days. They just rolled up their sleeves, all with the same purpose – to get medicines out for the patients at their time of need."The team provide medicines for hospital wards and

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