Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 21/02/2024
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is on the concourse of a bus station in Barnsley town centre. Pharmacy team members dispense NHS prescriptions and sell a range of over‐the‐counter medicines. The pharmacy provides services, such as the NHS Pharmacy First service. Team members provide medicines to people in multi‐compartment compliance packs. And they deliver medicines to people’s homes.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy adequately identifies and manages risks. It has the written procedures it needs relevant to most of its services to help team members provide services safely. Pharmacy team members understand their role to help protect vulnerable people. And they suitably protect people’s confidential information. Team members discuss the mistakes they make so that they can learn from them. But they don’t always record their errors or analyse the mistakes they make to identify patterns, so they may miss opportunities to learn and improve to help make the pharmacy safer.
Principle 2. Staff
Pharmacy team members have the right qualifications and skills for their roles and the services they provide or are undergoing appropriate training. They complete some ongoing ad hoc learning to help keep their knowledge and skills up to date. And they feel comfortable raising concerns and discussing ways to improve services.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean and properly maintained. It provides a suitable space for the services it provides. The pharmacy has a consultation room where people can speak to pharmacy team members privately.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Pharmacy team members generally manage and provide the pharmacy’s services safely. The pharmacy suitably sources its medicines. Its services are easy for people to access. And it has some processes to help people understand and manage the risks of taking higher-risk medicines. The pharmacy generally stores and manages its medicines appropriately. But the pharmacy could do more to help team members properly manage the risks of supplying pharmacy-only (P) medicines to people.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy generally has the necessary equipment available for the services it provides. It manages and uses its equipment in ways that protect people’s confidentiality. But lack of IT equipment means there are sometimes delays providing services to people.
Pharmacy details
Barnsley Interchange
32-34 Midland Street
BARNSLEY
S701SE
England
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 do the summary findings for each principle mean?
The standards for registered pharmacies are made up of five principles. The pharmacy will also receive one of four possible findings for each of these principles. These are:
| The pharmacy delivers an innovative service and benefits the whole community and performs well against the standards | |
| The pharmacy delivers positive outcomes for patients and performs well against most of the standards | |
| The pharmacy meets all the standards | |
| The pharmacy has not met one or more standards |