Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 04/03/2024
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is towards the front of a busy supermarket which is in a suburb of Nottingham. The pharmacy is open from seven days a week. Its main activity is dispensing NHS prescriptions and providing advice over the counter. It also offers services under the NHS Pharmacy First scheme; flu, meningitis, and pneumococcal vaccinations; the hypertension case-finding service; and substance misuse treatment.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy’s team members follow written procedures to provide services safely. They try to use mistakes that happen as opportunities to learn. But these events aren’t always recorded which may lessen the ability of the pharmacy to identify any patterns or trends and make improvements. The team members know what they can and cannot do when there is no pharmacist present. They protect people’s personal information and the pharmacy keeps the records it needs to be law. The team knows what to do to protect vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough team members who have the right skills or who are doing the right training to provide the pharmacy’s services safely. They are supported in ongoing learning and development, and they can have time at work to complete training. The team uses mistakes as opportunities to learn and improve.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy’s premises are suitable for the services the pharmacy provides and they are clean and well-organised. People can have a conversation with a member of staff in private, in the consultation room.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its services safely and effectively. It dispenses prescriptions in an organised way. Its team members take extra care with higher-risk medicines so people get suitable advice. And the pharmacy gets its stock from reputable sources and stores it safely. It also has good systems in place to make sure the medicines it supplies are fit for purpose.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely. It makes sure its equipment is safe to use.
Pharmacy details
ASDA Superstore
Radford Road
Hyson Green
NOTTINGHAM
NG75FP
England
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 |