Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 11/07/2022
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in a town centre. It provides NHS and private
prescription dispensing mainly to local residents. The pharmacy provides a
supervised consumption service for people treated by the drug and alcohol team.
It provides flu vaccinations in season, malaria prevention treatment via
an on-line pharmacist prescriber and emergency hormonal contraception under a
PGD. Some people are provided with medicines in multi-compartment compliance
packs.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy appropriately
identifies and manages the risks associated with its services. The team members
are clear about their roles and responsibilities. They log mistakes they make
during the pharmacy processes. And they learn from these to avoid problems being
repeated. The pharmacy keeps its records up to date to show that it is
providing safe services. It manages and protects people’s personal information
well. The team members understand how they can help to protect the welfare of
vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough qualified staff to provide safe services. Staff do ongoing training to help keep their skills and knowledge up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are clean and
provide a safe, secure and professional environment for people to receive
healthcare.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy's working practices are largely safe and effective, and it gets its medicines from reputable sources. The pharmacy responds appropriately to safety alerts so that people get medicines and medical devices that are safe to use. The pharmacy does not always highlight prescriptions for higher-risk medicines. So, it may be harder for it to identify people taking these medicines and provide them with all the advice they need to take their medicines safely.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the right
equipment for its services. It makes sure its equipment is safe to use.
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 |