Inspection outcome: Standards not all met
Last inspection: 03/07/2025
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Improvement action plan
Pharmacy context
This is a distance selling pharmacy which people access using its website www.acerpharmacy.com. It is situated near to the town centre of Thornton-Cleveleys, on the Wyre coastline in Lancashire. The pharmacy dispenses NHS prescriptions and private prescriptions. Medicines dispensed against NHS prescriptions are mostly supplied in multi-compartment compliance packs to help people take their medicines at the right time. The pharmacy offers medicine deliveries across the UK, but most of the prescriptions are dispensed for patients within the local area. A prescribing service is advertised on the website but is not being provided by the pharmacy.
This was a full intelligence-led inspection of the pharmacy following information received by the GPhC. The pharmacy was last inspected in February 2024 and all standards were met.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
What do the inspection outcomes mean?
After an inspection each pharmacy receives one overall outcome. This will be either Standards met or Standards not all met
| The pharmacy has met all the standards for registered pharmacies | |
| The pharmacy has not met one or more of the standards for registered pharmacies |
What does 'pharmacy has not met all standards' mean?
When a pharmacy has not met all standards, they are required to complete an improvement action plan, which you can find via a link at the top left of this page. We monitor progress to check the improvements are made and inspect again after six months to make sure the pharmacy is maintaining these improvements. A new report will then be published.