Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 18/12/2025
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Pharmacy context
This is a busy Boots community pharmacy located in a shopping complex serving a mostly mixed population based in Bournemouth.
The pharmacy dispenses around 10,000 prescription items in a typical month. As well as the NHS essential services they provide medicines use reviews (MURs), new medicines service (NMS), private prescription dispensing, emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) via patient group direction (PGD), an urgent repeat medicine service, a mole screening service, a travel clinic service including malaria prophylaxis on PGD and travel vaccinations, meningitis and pneumonia vaccinations, a smoking cessation service, supervised consumption, monitored dosage system (MDS) dispensing patients and a prescription collection and delivery service.
The pharmacy opens from 9:00am to 8:00pm Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 7:00pm on Saturday and from 10:30am to 4:30pm on Sunday.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Pharmacy details
Unit E & F
Castle Point
Castle Lane West
BOURNEMOUTH
BH89UB
England
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 |