HSC R&D Division provides funding to the Northern Ireland Clinical Trial Medical Investigational Product (NICTIMP) Manufacturing (Victoria Pharmaceuticals) and Management Advisory Service to support the provision of specialist medicines for use in clinical trials.
Victoria Pharmaceuticals is the regional specialist manufacturing service for Northern Ireland. It is the only hospital production service in Northern Ireland manufacturing sterile and non-sterile medicines that cannot be supplied by the pharmaceutical industry, but are still required by health professionals and patients throughout the HSC.
Victoria Pharmaceuticals is now based in a state of the art manufacturing facility alongside the Regional Pharmaceutical Laboratory Service which is responsible for providing quality assurance to Victoria Pharmaceuticals, the Belfast Trust and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland.