Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 22/08/2024
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is inside a medical centre. It is situated in a residential area near to the town centre of Wednesbury, West Midlands. The pharmacy dispenses NHS prescriptions, private prescriptions and sells over-the-counter medicines. It also provides a range of services including the NHS Pharmacy First service. The pharmacy recently changed ownership.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy team follows written procedures, and this helps them to provide services safely and effectively. The pharmacy keeps the records it needs to by law. And members of the team are given training so that they know how to keep private information safe. They discuss things that go wrong but they do not record them. So they are not able to complete a review of the mistakes to look for trends which means they may miss some learning opportunities.
Principle 2. Staff
There are enough members of the team to manage the pharmacy's workload and they are appropriately trained for the jobs they do. Additional training is available for team members to help keep their knowledge up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy premises are suitable for the services provided. A consultation room is available to enable private conversations with members of the team.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy's services are easy to access. And it manages and provides them safely. It gets its medicines from licensed sources, stores them appropriately and carries out regular checks to help make sure that they are in good condition. Additional checks are carried out when higher-risk medicines are supplied 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 use the equipment in a way to protect people’s private information.
Pharmacy details
Oakeswell Health Centre
Brunswick Park Road
Wednesbury
WS109HP
England
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 |