Patients at the pharmacy rely on safe medication...
and good advice from their pharmacist.
If you have to take many different medications and can't keep track...
The pharmacist can prescribe a medication roll.
The medication is packaged in a single bag for each use. That's custom service.
We are Apotheek Voorzorg.
We process over 2 million pills and capsules a day into individual medication rolls.
Before that, they go through a special process. Because every medication roll is unique:
The composition, the packaging and how a patient receives the medication roll.
To guarantee that every roll is correct, we follow three principles in the production process.
The one-way principle to avoid goods from being crossed.
The critical m2 principle. That means that for critical actions...
different medications are never within the same m2.
And the four-eye principle: each action is double-checked.
That way, each patient can rely on their own medication roll.
We receive the medication in the original packaging.
Then we strip the individual pills. That is mostly done by machines.
To ensure that the right medication is in the right container, we do a second check.
Then, we shake the medication from the container into canisters.
The canisters go into the packaging machine...
where there is room for almost all different types of medication.
Irregular dosages like halves of pills are added to the machine by hand.
That is custom healthcare.
The packaging machine then automatically fills the medication roll...
following the patient's prescription.
The machine knows exactly which pill goes in which bag.
Each bag states its contents, what the pills look like and when to take them.
We follow the roll to the inspection department.
The inspection machine takes a photo and an infrared photo of each bag.
The software checks to ensure it is the right pill based on mathematical algorithms.
The machine looks at 9 variables, including colour and shape.
That is called visual intelligence.
The inspection machine sends data to the control room.
The control room operator determines if the roll is correct or has to be corrected.
The inspection machine gives out rolls with bags of medication specifically for one patient.
The sorting machine knows if the roll is correct...
or has to be corrected in the correction department.
There is a minimal error rate, but if anything does go wrong...
we fix that here professionally.
Each roll has its own packaging, tailored to the patient�s wishes and living situation.
All medication rolls are now ready for shipping.
We sort the orders per destination for each pharmacist.
That can be all the patients in one ward at a healthcare facility.
To do so, Apotheek Voorzorg developed a logistics menu.
The shipping company comes to collect the medication rolls at night
and distributes them to pharmacies and healthcare facilities all over the country.
Apotheek Voorzorg is the medication rolls market leader for a reason.
Each pharmacist and nurse can rely on the best pharmaceutical care.
The medication roll helps to increase compliance and safety.
That way, the patient and the healthcare provider
can easily handle the medication.