Apple Pharmacy (1042651)

Pharmacy context

This is a community pharmacy in a predominantly residential area of Edinburgh. It’s main services include dispensing of NHS prescriptions, and it provides medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to help people take them properly. Team members advise on minor ailments and medicines use. Pharmacy team members provide other healthcare services including the NHS Pharmacy First Service and it delivers medicines to some people’s homes. This was a reinspection following an inspection in February 2026 where the pharmacy did not meet Standards 2.2, 3.1 and 4.3. This reinspection focused on those Standards which had previously not been met. Since the last inspection, the pharmacy has enrolled all team members onto appropriate training courses and team members have completed ongoing training to learn how to work in different areas of the pharmacy, for example dispensing multi-compartment compliance packs. Clutter has been cleared from non-public facing areas of the pharmacy and staff facilities are clean. The pharmacy has an effective expiry-date checking process and medicines requiring safe custody are stored appropriately.