Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 03/06/2025
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Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in a 24-hour Asda supermarket and is open 08.00 to 23.00 Monday, 07.00 to 23.00 Tuesday to Friday, 07.00 to 22.00 Saturday and 10.00 to 16.00 Sunday. The pharmacy has a 100-hour NHS dispensing contract.
The team currently dispense approximately 4500 NHS prescription items and 20 private prescriptions per month and offer services including flu vaccinations via NHS and private patient group direction (PGD), emergency contraception, erectile dysfunction treatment, hair loss prevention, antimalarials (Malarone), meningitis travel vaccinations and period delay via private PGD, supervised consumption to approximately 10 current clients, medicines use reviews (MUR), the NHS New Medicines Service (NMS), and monitored dosage systems (MDS) to 12 domiciliary clients.
Services are provided to a varied patient population.
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 |