Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 18/11/2025
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Pharmacy context
A Boots pharmacy located in a shopping centre and serving a mixed local population with a large Turkish community.
The pharmacy dispenses approximately 16,000 items per month and, as well as the NHS Essential Service, provides medicine use reviews (MURs), new medicine service (NMS), needle exchange, prescription collection and delivery, substance misuse (20-25 patients), minor ailment scheme and emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) via a patient group direction (PGD).
The pharmacy also provides monitored dosage system (MDS) trays for 80 domiciliary patients and blister packs to over 140 care homes; these were a mixture of nursing and residential homes ranging in size from 5 to 62 bed.
The opening times are Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm, Saturday 8am to 6pm and Sunday 10am to 4pm.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. 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 |