Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 10/10/2024
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is on a busy high street in a town centre in a largely residential area. It provides NHS dispensing services, the New Medicine Service, the Pharmacy First service, NHS contraception service, blood pressure checks and uses patient group directions to provide the flu vaccination service. The pharmacy supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to a small number of people who live in their own homes and need this support.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Overall, the pharmacy appropriately identifies and manages the risks associated with its services to help provide them safely. It regularly seeks feedback from people who use the pharmacy. It records and regularly reviews any mistakes that happen during the dispensing process. And it uses this information to help make its services safer and reduce future risk. It protects people’s personal information well. And it keeps its records up to date and accurate. Team members understand their role in protecting vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough trained team members to provide its services safely. Team members are provided with ongoing and structured training to support their learning needs and maintain their knowledge and skills. The team members are provided with time set aside for training and can complete it at work. They can raise any concerns or make suggestions and have regular meetings. The team members can take professional decisions to ensure people taking medicines are safe. And are not affected by the pharmacy’s targets.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises provide a safe, secure, and clean environment for the pharmacy's services. People can have a conversation with a team member in a private area.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its services safely and manages them well. It highlights prescriptions for higher-risk medicines so there is an opportunity to speak with people when they collect these medicines. The pharmacy gets its medicines from reputable suppliers and stores them properly. It responds appropriately to drug alerts and product recalls. This helps make sure that its medicines and devices are safe for people to use. People with a range of needs can access the pharmacy’s services. And people who get their medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs receive the information they need to take their medicines safely.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely. It uses its equipment to help protect people’s personal information.
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 |