Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 15/05/2019
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in a large medical centre in a suburb of Sheffield. The pharmacy dispenses NHS and private prescriptions. And it sells a range of over the counter medicines. The pharmacy supplies medicines in multi-compartmental compliance packs to help people take their medication.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has team members with the qualifications and skills to support the pharmacy’s services. The pharmacy provides feedback to team members on their performance. It offers them opportunities to complete more training or agree new roles and they share best practice with each other.
The team members discuss what they can improve or agree new roles to help deliver the pharmacy’s services. And they share information and learning particularly from errors when dispensing. So, they can improve their performance and skills.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean, secure and suitable for the services provided. And it has good arrangements for people to have private conversations with the team.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides services that support people's health needs. The pharmacy manages its services well. It keeps records of prescription requests and deliveries it makes to people. So, it can deal with any queries effectively. The pharmacy gets its medicines from reputable sources. And it stores and manages medicines appropriately.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide safe services and protect 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 |