Inspection outcome: Standards not all met
Last inspection: 05/02/2025
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Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is located within a parade of shops, in a residential area of Smethwick. It opens late evenings and at weekends. The pharmacy dispenses prescriptions and provides some medicines in multi-compartment compliance aid packs, to help people take them at the right time.This was an inspection of the pharmacy to follow up on information of concern received by the GPhC about an online service provided by the pharmacy involving the supply of Pharmacy-only and General Sales List medicines via a third-party digital platform. Not all the standards were inspected on this occasion.Enforcement action has been taken against this pharmacy, which remains in force at the time of this inspection, and there are restrictions on the provision of some services. The enforcement action taken allows the pharmacy to continue providing other services, which are not affected by the restrictions imposed.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
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.