Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 05/02/2020
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is situated in a shopping centre in the middle of the town. Most of the activity is dispensing NHS prescriptions, both to people living in their own homes and in care homes; and giving advice about medicines over the counter. Other services that the pharmacy provides include substance misuse services, seasonal flu vaccinations against patient group directions, prescription deliveries to people’s homes, Medicines Use Reviews (MUR) and New Medicine Service (NMS) checks.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy continually monitors the safety of its services to protect and further improve people’s safety. It identifies risks and takes action to address these. Its team members have defined roles and accountabilities. The pharmacy has processes for learning from its mistakes. The pharmacy keeps all its records up-to-date and these show it is providing safe services. The pharmacy adequately manages people’s personal information. It knows how to protect vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy’s team members are suitably trained for the roles they undertake. Team members work well together and adequately manage the workload. They can raise concerns if needed. The team members receive support in keeping their skills and knowledge up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy keeps its premises safe, secure and appropriately maintained. The pharmacy protects personal information.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its services safely. The pharmacy team is helpful and supportive to people who use the pharmacy. It identifies higher-risk medicines and has good processes in place to support people to take their medicines safely. The pharmacy gets its medicines and medical devices from reputable sources. It stores them safely and it takes the right actions if any medicines or devices are not safe to use to protect people’s health and wellbeing.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has access to the appropriate equipment and facilities to provide the services that it offers. It adequately maintains its equipment and facilities.
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 |