[mr_colt]

At the 3 local hospitals I have had contact with pharmacy staff in:-

Pharmacists and techs who never left the pharmacy area wore shirt and tie with trousers / blouse and trousers type of clothing unless their duties dictated the wearing of any protective clothing which they would don for that task and then remove. They usually attached ID to a belt hoop / waistband so at glance you would not know what/who they were.

Pharmacists and techs who did the ward medication and discharge medication rounds wore white cotton lab coats religiously usually with a "Pharmacy" ID badge prominently hooked onto the right breast pocket. Under the coat they wore the same stuff as the staff who stayed in the pharmacy, though techs carried these strange satchels with a manner of diagnostic equipment, BNF and a ream of notifications to give to the various Doctors about botched prescriptions they needed fixing.

mr_colt