Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 16/07/2019
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy located within a purpose-built health centre and next door to a GP surgery on the edge of Gosport in Hampshire. The pharmacy dispenses NHS and private prescriptions. It provides some services such as Medicines Use Reviews (MURs) and the New Medicines Service (NMS) and it supplies medicines inside multi-compartment compliance packs, for people if they find it difficult to take their medicines.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy identifies and manages most risks effectively. Members of the pharmacy team monitor the safety of their services by recording mistakes and learning from these. They understand how they can protect the welfare of vulnerable people. In general, the pharmacy maintains most of its records in accordance with the law.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough staff to manage its workload safely. Pharmacy team members understand their roles and responsibilities. The pharmacy provides them with resources to complete ongoing training. This helps to ensure that their skills and knowledge are kept up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy's premises are clean, secure and provide a suitable environment for the delivery of its services.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy obtains medicines from reputable sources and stores them appropriately. In general, the pharmacy’s services are delivered in a safe manner. But, team members do not always identify prescriptions that require extra advice or record information. This makes it difficult for them to show that appropriate advice has been provided when these medicines are supplied. And, they are not removing date-expired prescriptions in time. This means that medicines could be supplied unlawfully.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the appropriate equipment and facilities it needs to provide its services safely.
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 |