Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 19/03/2024
Pharmacy context
This is a medium-sized branch of Boots on the High Road running through Leytonstone in East London. It dispenses people’s prescriptions, sells over-the-counter medicines and provides health advice. It offers consultations and some medicines through the Pharmacy First service. And also offers flu vaccinations during the autumn and winter seasons.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy provides its team members with clear written instructions on how to carry out their tasks safely and effectively. It is good at ensuring they understand how to carry out those tasks. They are clear about their roles and responsibilities. And they work to professional standards, identifying and managing risks effectively. The pharmacy regularly reviews the mistakes its team members make and takes appropriate action to reduce the chances of similar mistakes happening again. It keeps all the records that it should. Its team members understand their role in helping protect vulnerable people. The pharmacy manages and protects confidential information well and tells people how their private information will be used.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has a well-led team with enough people to manage its workload safely and effectively. Pharmacy team members are well-trained and have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities. They work well together and can make suggestions to improve safety where appropriate.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy’s premises provide a secure environment for people to receive its services. The team keeps the pharmacy clean and tidy, despite the premises themselves looking dated and rather tired. The premises include a suitably secure and private room which the team uses for some of its services and for private conversations.
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 easily access them. The pharmacy sources, stores and manages its medicines safely, and so makes sure that all the medicines it supplies are fit for purpose. It responds well to drug alerts or product recalls to make sure that people only get medicines or devices which are safe for them to take. It identifies people supplied with high-risk medicines so that they can be given extra information they may need to take their medicines safely.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has suitable facilities for the services it provides, and it makes sure that they are properly maintained. It also ensures that people’s private information is kept safe and secure.
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 |