Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 04/04/2025
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Pharmacy context
This pharmacy is situated in a parade of shops on a busy road. The pharmacy provides NHS services such as dispensing prescriptions, flu and COVID vaccinations, smoking cessation service, the Pharmacy First service, the New Medicine Service (NMS), the Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Service (ABPM) and the contraception service (PCS). It supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people who need this support to manage their medicines at home and offers a delivery service. The pharmacy also runs a travel clinic, weight loss clinic and provides vitamin B12 injections using patient group directions (PGDs).
This was a routine inspection of the pharmacy which focused on the core Standards relating to patient safety. Not all the Standards were inspected on this occasion. The pharmacy was last inspected in December 2015 when it was under different ownership. The pharmacy changed owners in October 2023, and this was the first inspection under the new ownership.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
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 |