Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 20/01/2020
Pharmacy context
A Boots Outpatient pharmacy located in Kingston Hospital, Surrey. The pharmacy provides services to hosital outpatients and provides medicines on a named patient basis for some day-clinics in the hospital.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy regularly reviews its practices to make them safer and more effective. The pharmacy team identifies and manages risks in the pharmacy appropriately. Team members record their errors and learn from them to stop them happening again. They are clear about their roles and responsibilities and work in a safe and professional way. The pharmacy keeps up-to-date records as required by the law. The pharmacy keeps people’s private information safe and team members understand their role in protecting the safety of vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough staff to manage its workload. It makes sure that its team members are appropriately 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 appropriate equipment and the facilities it needs to provide its services safely. It uses its equipment to make sure people’s data is kept secure. And its team makes sure its equipment is kept clean.
Pharmacy details
Kingston Hospital
Galsworthy Road
KINGSTON UPON THAMES
KT27QB
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 |