Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 12/07/2024
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is located in a residential area. Its main activity is dispensing NHS prescriptions for people living locally, and it manages some people's repeat prescriptions. It also provides a large number of people with their medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs, including those living in assisted living and care home establishments across the Greater Manchester region. The pharmacy provides other NHS services which includes the New Medicine Service (NMS), and it has a home delivery service.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy manages its risks reasonably well. The pharmacy team follows written instructions to help make sure it provides safe services. The team discusses its mistakes which helps it to learn from them. Team members protect people’s private information, and they understand their role in protecting and supporting vulnerable people. The pharmacy generally keeps the records it needs to by law. But some records have information missing and others are not always kept up to date. This could make it harder for the pharmacy to show how it handles and supplies medicines safely.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough staff to provide safe and effective services. Team members work well together, and they have the qualifications and skills necessary for their roles.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are clean, secure and suitable for the pharmacy’s services. It has a private consultation room, so people can have confidential conversations with pharmacy team members and maintain their privacy.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy’s working practices are generally effective, which helps make sure people receive safe services. It gets its medicines from licensed suppliers, and the team makes some checks to make sure they are in good condition and suitable to supply.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy team has the equipment and facilities that it needs for the services it provides. The equipment is appropriately maintained and used in a way that protects people's privacy.
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 |