Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 28/05/2019
Pharmacy context
This pharmacy is located within a parade of shops near the centre of Nottingham. It is situated on a main road and receives prescriptions from several local GP surgeries for people living nearby. It dispenses NHS prescriptions and provides Medicine Use Review (MURs) and New Medicine Service (NMS) consultations. It supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy generally manages its risks appropriately. Its team members record their mistakes to make improvements. But they could do more to identify trends and learn from them. The pharmacy keeps the legal records that it needs to and mostly makes sure that they are accurate. It generally manages confidential information appropriately and its team members know how to protect vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough staff to manage its services safely. It makes sure its team members are suitably qualified to perform their roles. Its team members have access to ongoing training to help keep their knowledge up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy provides its services from suitable premises.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy mostly manages its services well. Its team members source its medicines from reputable suppliers. They generally make sure that people’s medicines are safe but do not always make appropriate records to support this. The pharmacy’s team members identify higher-risk medicines and largely provide appropriate advice to help people use these safely.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy appropriately maintains its equipment and facilities to provide its services.
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 |