Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is located in a business address in Preston. The pharmacy premises is not open to the public. Its sole activity is the dispensing of private prescriptions for medicines prescribed by an online prescribing service specialising in ADHD conditions. Medicines are sent via mail order to people who have signed up to the pharmacy's service.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy team follows written procedures, and this helps to maintain the safety and effectiveness of the pharmacy's services. The pharmacy has written risk assessments to help show what the risks are with its services, and the action taken to help reduce these risks. Members of the team record things that go wrong and review them to help identify learning and reduce the chances of similar mistakes happening again. And they are given training so that they know how to keep private information safe. They make the records that are needed by law. But some of the records are not kept in an appropriate format.
Principle 2. Staff
There are enough staff to manage the pharmacy's workload and they are appropriately trained for the jobs they do. Members of the pharmacy team complete some additional training to help them keep their knowledge up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy premises are suitable for the services provided. And it is maintained to a standard expected of a healthcare setting.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy's services are accessible. And it manages and provides them safely. It gets its medicines from recognised sources, stores them appropriately and carries out regular checks to help make sure that they are in good condition. The pharmacist carries out additional checks using prescribing records to ensure they are being used appropriately.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Members of the pharmacy team have access to the equipment they need for the services they provide. And they maintain the equipment so that it is safe to use.
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.