Inspection outcome: Standards not all met
Last inspection: 01/06/2026
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Improvement action plan
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy on the High Street of Castle Douglas, Dumfriesshire. The pharmacy’s main business is dispensing NHS prescriptions. And it supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to some people who need help remembering to take their medicines at the right times. It offers a medicines delivery service. The pharmacy's team members also provide the NHS Pharmacy First service and sell over‐the‐counter medicines. This was a full intelligence-led inspection of the pharmacy following information received by the GPhC. The pharmacy was last inspected in September 2022 and all standards were met. It changed ownership in May 2024.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
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 does 'pharmacy has not met all standards' mean?
When a pharmacy has not met all standards, they are required to complete an improvement action plan, which you can find via a link at the top left of this page. We monitor progress to check the improvements are made and inspect again after six months to make sure the pharmacy is maintaining these improvements. A new report will then be published.