Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 18/07/2024
Pharmacy context
This NHS community pharmacy is set next door to a medical practice on a main road in Tooting. The pharmacy has recently changed hands. And is now part of a small chain of pharmacies. The pharmacy opens six days a week. It sells medicines over the counter. It dispenses people’s prescriptions. And it delivers medicines to people who have difficulty in leaving their homes. The pharmacy supplies multi-compartment compliance packs to people who need help managing their medicines. It delivers the NHS Pharmacy First service to help people who have a minor illness or need an urgent supply of a medicine. And people can visit the pharmacy to have their blood pressure checked or get a flu jab.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy appropriately identifies and manages its risks. It has written instructions to help its team members work safely. It continually monitors the safety of its services to protect people and further improve patient safety. It largely keeps the records it needs to by law. It has the insurance it needs to protect people if things do go wrong. And people can share their experiences of using the pharmacy and its services to help it do things better. People who work in the pharmacy log and review the mistakes they make to learn from them and to try to stop the same sort of things happening again. They can explain what they do, what they are responsible for and when they might seek help. They keep people’s private information safe. And they understand their role in protecting vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has the people it needs to deliver safe and effective care. And its team members do the right training for their roles. Members of the pharmacy team work well together and have a work culture of openness, honesty and learning. And they use their judgement to make decisions about what is right for the people they care for. The pharmacy team is comfortable about giving feedback on how to improve the pharmacy’s services. And it knows how to raise a concern if it has one.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy provides a suitable environment to deliver it services from. And people can receive services in private when they need to.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides services that people can access easily. Its working practices are generally safe and effective. And it delivers medicines to people’s homes and keeps records to show that it has delivered the right medicine to the right person. The pharmacy gets its medicines from reputable sources. And it stores most of them appropriately and securely. Members of the pharmacy team are friendly and helpful. They dispose of people’s unwanted medicines properly. And they carry out checks to make sure the pharmacy’s medicines are safe and fit for purpose.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment and the facilities it needs to provide its services safely. And its team makes sure the equipment it uses is clean and suitable for what it’s being used for.
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 |