Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 12/06/2025
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Pharmacy context
An in-store supermarket pharmacy open Monday 8am to 11pm, Tuesday to Friday 7am to 11pm, Saturday 7am to 10pm and Sunday 10.30am to 4.30pm.The pharmacy typically dispenses around 8,000 NHS prescriptions a month and provides a range of other services including MURs, NMS, and PGDs for salbutamol inhalers, Malarone, Flu vaccination and EHC.
Methadone is dispensed against instalment prescriptions for four patients, one of whom takes the medicine under supervision. Buprenorphine is dispensed for two patients.The pharmacy does not offer a delivery service and does not currently dispense any medicines in MDS trays.
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 |