Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 04/04/2019
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in the centre of Fortrose. It provides a range of services to the local area and further afield. And dispenses NHS prescriptions. The pharmacy supplies medicines in multi-compartment medicine devices to support people. And offers a delivery service to housebound and vulnerable people.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are clean. And provide a safe, secure and professional environment for patients to receive healthcare.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides a range of services to the surrounding area. It has level access and a comfortable seated waiting area. The pharmacy provides information leaflets for self-selection. It displays its opening times and services in the window. And ensures that people know what the pharmacy provides. The pharmacy provides extra support to people to take their medicines. But the pharmacy needs to introduce extra security controls when non-pharmacy staff transport prescriptions. The pharmacy carries out dispensing in an organised manner. This means that services are safe and people do not run out of their medicines. The pharmacy sources, stores and manages medicines. And updates the pharmacy team about high-risk medicines. This means that team members know when to provide people with extra information. The pharmacy sources, stores and manages medicines to ensure they are fit for purpose. But it does not verify the receipt of new medicines. And has not followed new legislation for the Falsified Medicines Directive.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide safe services.
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 |