Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 22/01/2025
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Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in the Nottinghamshire village of Brinsley. Its main services include dispensing NHS prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. The pharmacy provides a range of NHS consultation services including the NHS blood pressure check service, NHS Pharmacy First Service and seasonal vaccinations. It provides an NHS consultation and prescribing service through the new NHS Independent prescribing (IP) Pathfinder Programme for people with minor ailments. And it provides a range of private consultation services including an ear care service, weight loss service and travel health vaccinations. The pharmacy supplies some medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs, designed to help people remember to take their medicines. It offers people the option to collect their medicines through an automated collection point located to the side of the premises. And it delivers medicines to people’s homes and to people living in care homes.
This was a reinspection following an inspection in July 2024, where the pharmacy did not meet Standards 1.3, 1.6 and 4.3. This reinspection focused mainly on those Standards which had previously not been met. The pharmacy has improved against all these standards. Since the last inspection, its team members have refreshed their learning of the pharmacy’s written procedures. And they know what tasks
they can and cannot perform without the responsible pharmacist present and
signed in. The pharmacy is keeping its records in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements. It is storing medicines safely and securely. And it is using monitoring tools to support it in ensuring medicines requiring cold storage are kept at the right temperature.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
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 |