Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 25/11/2024
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is in a residential area of the area of Woodhouse in the city of Sheffield. Its main services include dispensing NHS and private prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. It provides some people with their medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs and provides the NHS Pharmacy First service. It delivers some medicines to people’s homes.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy provides its team members with a set of written procedures to support them in managing its services. The pharmacy keeps people’s sensitive information secure, and its team members are adequately equipped to safeguard vulnerable adults and children. The pharmacy has a process for team members to record mistakes made during the dispensing process. And they make changes to the way they work to improve patient safety.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy employs a suitable number of team members to manage the pharmacy’s significant dispensing workload safely. Team members are supported by the pharmacy to complete training courses. They can provide feedback on the pharmacy’s services to help improve service delivery.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy premises are appropriately maintained and are suitable for the services the pharmacy provides. The pharmacy has the facilities for people to have private conversations with team members.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy’s services are made suitably accessible, and it provides them safely. The pharmacy obtains it medicines from appropriate sources and its team undertake checks to ensure medicines are fit for purpose before supply to people.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the appropriately maintained equipment that it needs to provide its services. And it uses its equipment appropriately to help protect people's confidentiality.
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 |