Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 02/12/2019
Pharmacy context
A Boots pharmacy located in a busy shopping centre in Kingston Upon Thames. The pharmacy dispenses NHS and private prescriptions, sells a range of over-the-counter medicines and provides health advice. The pharmacy also provides Medicines Use Reviews (MURs), a New Medicine Service (NMS), multi-compartment compliance aids for patients in their own homes and medicines for care homes, vaccination services (travel, flu chicken pox, HPV, meningitis), supervised consumption and a delivery service.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Overall, the pharmacy’s working practices are safe and effective. It records and reviews its mistakes to stop them happening again. The team keeps all the records required by law and team members keeps people’s information safe and they help to protect vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough staff to manage its workload. Team members are trained for the jobs they do, and they complete additional training to help them keep their knowledge up to date. They can use their professional judgement to decide whether it is safe to supply medicines.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy's premises are clean, tidy and suitable for the provision of its services. The premises are well maintained, and they are secure when closed. Pharmacy team members use a private room for sensitive conversations with people to protect their privacy.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy delivers its services in a safe and effective manner, and people with a range of needs can access them. The pharmacy sources, stores and manages medicines safely, and so makes sure that the medicines it supplies are fit for purpose. Team members identify people supplied with high-risk medicines so that they can be given any extra information they may need to take their medicines safely. The pharmacy responds satisfactorily to drug alerts or product recalls so that people only receive medicines or devices which are safe for them to take.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs for the delivery of its services. It looks after this equipment to ensure it works and is accurate.
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 |