Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 30/09/2024
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy located adjacent to a health centre in Jordanthorpe in the city of Sheffield. Its main services include dispensing NHS and private prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. It provides the NHS Pharmacy First service and blood pressure testing. The pharmacy supplies several people with their medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs and delivers some medicines to people’s homes.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy provides its team members with access to a set of written instructions to support them in safely providing its services. Team members make some adjustments to the way they work to reduce the risk of similar mistakes made during the dispensing process from recurring. The pharmacy maintains most of the records it should by law and it keeps people’s private information secure. It adequately equips its team to support the safeguarding of vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy employs enough team members to safely manage its workload. It supports team members enrolled on training courses with protected training time to help them learn effectively. And it supports the team to provide feedback to improve the way the pharmacy operates. Team members work well together.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean and kept secure. It has facilities for people to have confidential conversations about their health with the pharmacy team.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy team manages the delivery of its services safely and effectively. The pharmacy makes its services suitably accessible to people. It stores most of its medicines correctly and it has adequate processes to ensure medicines are within their expiry dates and fit to supply to people
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Pharmacy team members have access to appropriate equipment for the services they provide. The equipment is fit for purpose and safe to use. Team members use the equipment in a way that protects people’s private information.
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 |