Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 22/04/2025
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Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is situated in the city centre of Lancaster. The pharmacy dispenses NHS prescriptions, private prescriptions and sells over-the-counter medicines. It also provides a range of services including seasonal flu and COVID vaccinations, and the NHS Pharmacy First service. The pharmacy supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to some people to help them take their medicines at the right time.This was a desktop inspection following an inspection in April 2025 where the pharmacy did not meet Standard 4.3. This reinspection focused on those Standards which had previously not been met. The pharmacy provided photographic and video evidence to show how they had met standard 4.3. The evidence clearly showed higher risk medicines were now being stored correctly in line with the requirements. And as a result of these improvements, higher risk medicines were stored safely and securely to protect them against unauthorised access.
Inspection summary findings
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 |