Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 04/01/2023
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in a shopping centre near Gillingham. It provides a range of services, including the New Medicine Service and the flu vaccination service. And it provides medicines as part of the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service. The pharmacy supplies medications in multi-compartment compliance packs to a small number of people who live in their own homes to help them manage their medicines. It receives most of its prescriptions electronically, and it serves a mixed population.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy adequately identifies and manages the risks associated with its services to help provide them safely. Team members record and review their mistakes so that they can learn and make the pharmacy's services safer. The pharmacy largely protects people’s personal information. People using the pharmacy can provide feedback about its services. And team members understand their role in protecting vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has an adequate number of trained team members to provide its services safely. They are provided with ongoing and structured training to support their learning needs and maintain their knowledge and skills. And they get time set aside in work to complete it. They can raise any concerns or make suggestions and have regular meetings. This means that they can help improve the systems in the pharmacy. The team members can take professional decisions to ensure people taking medicines are safe. These 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
People with a range of needs can access the pharmacy’s services. Overall, the pharmacy provides its services safely and manages them well. It gets its medicines from reputable suppliers and stores them properly. It responds appropriately to drug alerts and product recalls which helps make sure that its medicines and devices are safe for people to use.
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.
Pharmacy details
5 Hempstead Valley
Shopping Centre
Hempstead
GILLINGHAM
ME73PB
England
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 |