Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 18/11/2019
Pharmacy context
An independent pharmacy located on a busy high street in Stanmore. The pharmacy dispenses NHS and private prescriptions, sells a range of over-the-counter medicines and provides health advice. The pharmacy also provides Medicines Use Reviews (MURs), a New Medicine Service (NMS), multi-compartment compliance aids for patients in their own homes, supervised consumption, flu vaccinations, a private travel vaccination service, emergency hormonal contraception via patient group direction and a delivery service.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Overall, the pharmacy’s working practices are safe. The pharmacy sometimes records its mistakes but it doesn't review them regularly. So it might miss opportunities to spot patterns and trends which could prevent the same mistakes happening again. The pharmacy keeps all the records that it needs to by law and it generally keeps people’s information safe. Team members know how to protect vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough staff to manage its workload. Team members are trained for the jobs they do, and they complete some additional training to help them keep their knowledge up to date. They can use their professional judgement to decide whether it is safe to supply medicines.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy's premises are clean, tidy and suitable for the provision of its services. The premises are well maintained, and they are secure when closed. Pharmacy team members use a private room for sensitive conversations with people to protect their privacy.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy delivers its services in a safe and effective manner, and people with a range of needs can access them. The pharmacy sources, stores and manages medicines safely, and so makes sure that the medicines it supplies are fit for purpose. They identify people supplied with high-risk medicines so that they can be given extra information they need to take their medicines safely. The pharmacy responds satisfactorily to drug alerts or product recalls so that people only receive medicines or devices which are safe for them to take.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs for the delivery of its services. It looks after this equipment to ensure it works and is accurate.
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 |