Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 03/09/2019
Pharmacy context
This is a rural community pharmacy in a village in an area popular with seasonal visitors. The pharmacy dispenses NHS prescriptions and sells a range of over-the-counter medicines. It also supplies medicines in multi-compartmental compliance packs and provides substance misuse services. The owner pharmacist is the only member of staff.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacist follows defined processes for all services to ensure that they are safe. The pharmacy keeps all the records that it needs to by law and mostly follows best practice. The pharmacy helps to protect vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough qualified and experienced staff to safely provide its services. The pharmacist undertakes training and learning activities to maintain his skills.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are safe and clean and suitable for the pharmacy services provided. The pharmacy premises are secure when closed.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy helps people to ensure they can all use its services. The pharmacy provides safe services and gives people the information they need to be able to use their medicines safely. The pharmacy gets medicines from reliable sources and stores them properly.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs for the delivery of its services. The pharmacy looks after this equipment to ensure it works.
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 |