Inspection outcome: Standards not all met
Last inspection: 17/04/2026
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Improvement action plan
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy within a small parade of shops in the village of Brightons, Falkirk. Its main activity is dispensing NHS prescription. And it provides medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to help people take their medicines properly. The pharmacy offers a medicines' delivery service. The pharmacist offers a private weight management service. This was a reinspection following an inspection in September 2025 where the pharmacy did not meet Standards 1.1, 1.2 and 4.3. This reinspection focused on the core Standards relating to patient safety. Since the last inspection, the pharmacy has implemented more standard operating procedures to support its team members with specific pharmacy tasks. It has implemented a near miss log to record mistakes made during the dispensing process. And team members perform regular checks to ensure medicines remain fit to supply such as recording fridge temperatures and date checking activities. Although the pharmacy has made progress since the previous inspection, its records do not always reflect accurate information and there is not a complete set of SOPs to support team members when recording information to ensure its records are accurate.
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 does 'pharmacy has not met all standards' mean?
When a pharmacy has not met all standards, they are required to complete an improvement action plan, which you can find via a link at the top left of this page. We monitor progress to check the improvements are made and inspect again after six months to make sure the pharmacy is maintaining these improvements. A new report will then be published.