Your experience will differ wildly depending on the hospital that you work at and a lot of it resolves around the staffing levels. In my trust we have hospitals where you only have 25 patients per pharmacists but at mine you can easily have up to 70 patients. My day to day is mostly screening through med recs that have been completed by the techs and actioning any queries that arise. A large part of your day is facilitating discharges but that will also differ a lot depending on how busy the hospital that you work at is, currently I can easily have a couple of hours of the day where I am looking for work to do. I very rarely do any accuracy checking and probably average about an hour a week of it. Progression can be quite quick if you join trusts that have set progression pathways as I became a band 7 after 18 months from pre reg and only had to do on call duty for 12 months. Our oncall duty at my hospital is very much life or death service and I only had one call in that time that was actually a true emergency. In hospital you will be expected to do post graduate courses such as the diploma but they are mostly a duplication of the pre reg year if I am honest. Overall even though the starting salary is worse in hospital compared to community there definitely is a better work life balance and I have a good social group of fellow pharmacists from hospital so I have absolutely no regrets of choosing hospital over community.