Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 26/06/2019
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is situated in a main road next to a doctor's surgery. Most of its activity is dispensing NHS prescriptions and giving advice about medicines over the counter. The pharmacy supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance aids to people who live in their own homes. Other services which the pharmacy provides include prescription deliveries to people's homes, Medicine Use Reviews (MUR), New Medicine Service checks (NMS), substance misuse services and a smoking cessation service.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy identifies and manages most of the risks associated with the provision of its services. Its team members have defined roles and accountability. They manage people’s personal information adequately. And they know how to protect vulnerable people. The pharmacy team doesn’t record all of its near misses. So it could be missing opportunities to improve the safety and quality of its services.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy team members adequately manage the workload within the pharmacy. They can raise concerns or issues affecting patient safety and there is a work culture of openness and honesty. The pharmacy doesn't have a formal approach to ongoing training, making it harder for the pharmacy to be sure that its team members are keeping their knowledge up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy keeps its premises safe, secure and appropriately maintained. It protects people’s confidentiality. The premises are secure from unauthorised access when open and when closed.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy generally provides its services safely and effectively. Its team members are helpful but some people including those who receive higher‐risk medicines may not be getting all the information they need to take their medicines safely. The pharmacy gets its medicines and medical devices from reputable sources. It mainly stores them safely. And it generally takes the right actions if any medicines or devices are not safe to use to protect people’s health and wellbeing.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the appropriate equipment and facilities to provide the services it offers. It adequately maintains the equipment and facilities that it uses.
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 |