A £250,000 robot has been installed at a pharmacy in Llandudno.

The pharmacy at Llandudno hospital has undergone a refurbishment. A massive investment, to improve medicines management at the hospital, has resulted in a new dispensing robot along with automated medicines vending facilities, located on the inpatients wards.

The new automated robotics will improve efficiency in handling medicines and will give nursing and pharmacy teams more time with patients.

Access to the pharmacy has also been improved; it can now be reached from the hospital's main corridor.

Dr Berwyn Owen, chief pharmacist for the Health Board, said: "The new robotics will really improve the safety, productivity and efficiency with handling medicines at Llandudno Hospital as well as eliminating drug errors and improving the speed at which we can dispense products."

Outgoing Llandudno mayor, cllr Francis Davies, added: "Llandudno Hospital used to be my second home as a child, I was always falling down and doing silly things, and coming here to be cared for.

"It’s wonderful to see such a superb job done on this."

The new robot was funded thanks to an investment of £200,000 from the Welsh Government Pharmacy Modernisation Fund with the remaining funding provided by the Health Board.

The robot is the fifth in use by the health board, with similar technology also in use at Glan Clwyd Hospital, Ysbyty Gwynedd, Wrexham Maelor Hospital and HMP Berwyn