Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 31/07/2023
Pharmacy context
This busy NHS community pharmacy is in a GP surgery in a residential area of Godalming. The pharmacy opens seven 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 (compliance packs) to a few people who need help managing their medicines. It delivers the Community Pharmacist Consultation Scheme (CPCS) to help people who have a minor illness or need an urgent supply of a medicine. And its team can check a person’s blood pressure.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy manages its risks appropriately. It has written instructions to help its team members work safely. It mostly 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 talk to each other about the mistakes they make and write them down to try and 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 enough people in its team to deliver safe and effective care. Members of the pharmacy team do the right training for their roles. And they work well together and use their judgement to make decisions about what is right for the people they care for. The pharmacy team is comfortable about giving feedback to help the pharmacy do things better. 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. Its premises are clean and tidy. And people can receive services in private when they need to.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy has working practices that are safe and effective. And its team is friendly and helps people access the services they need. Members of the pharmacy team dispose of people’s unwanted medicines properly. And they generally carry out checks to make sure the pharmacy’s medicines are safe and fit for purpose. The pharmacy delivers prescription medicines to people’s homes and keeps records to show that it has delivered the right medicine to the right person. It gets its medicines from reputable sources. And it usually stores them appropriately and securely.
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 |