Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 23/03/2023
Pharmacy context
This busy community pharmacy is located next to a medical centre in the centre of the village. Most people who use the pharmacy are from the local area and a home delivery service is available. The pharmacy dispenses NHS prescriptions, and it sells a range of over-the-counter medicines. It supplies some medicines in multi-compartment compliance aid packs to help people take their medicines at the right time. The pharmacy carried out covid-19 vaccinations during the pandemic from an associated premises.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy proactively manages the risks associated with its services to ensure it keeps people safe. It completes risk assessments and regular audits to make sure it operates safely and to help improve the quality of its services. It asks its customers for their views and completes all the records that it needs to by law. Members of the pharmacy team work to professional standards, and they are clear about their roles and responsibilities. The pharmacy has effective systems to record their mistakes so that they can learn from them, and they act to help stop the same sort of mistakes from happening again. The team members keep people's private information safe. And they complete training, so they know how to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy’s team members work effectively together to manage the workload. The pharmacy team shares ideas and learning both inside and outside of the organisation to benefit other healthcare professionals and the wider public. Team members are well trained, and the pharmacy supports and encourages them to keep their skills up to date and supports their development. They are enthusiastic and knowledgeable about their roles. And the pharmacy enables them to act on their own initiative and use their professional judgement to benefit people who use the pharmacy’s services. Team members are comfortable providing feedback to their manager and they receive feedback about their own performance.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy provides a professional environment for people to receive healthcare services. It has private consultation rooms that enables people with the opportunity to receive services in private, and have confidential conversations with members of the pharmacy team.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy offers a wide range
of healthcare services which are tailored to the local community and are easy
for people to access. It manages its
services safely to help make sure people receive effective care. The pharmacy
team members promote services to help improve people’s health and wellbeing. They
work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals, and they engage
people in quality conversations about their health leading to positive
outcomes. The pharmacy sources and supplies medicines safely. And it carries
out checks to ensure medicines are in good condition and suitable to supply.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Members of the pharmacy team have access to the equipment and facilities they need for the services they provide. They maintain the equipment so that it is safe to use.
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 |