Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 13/12/2023
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is located in the town of Claydon near Ipswich. It provides a variety of services including dispensing NHS prescriptions, the New Medicine Service (NMS), and seasonal flu vaccinations through a patient group direction (PGD). It also provides medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people who have difficulty remembering to take their medicines.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Overall, the pharmacy manages the risks associated with its services well. And its team members record and regularly review any dispensing mistakes. The pharmacy largely keeps the records its needs to by law. And it has appropriate insurance arrangements in place. Team members know how to protect vulnerable people. And the pharmacy handles people’s private information safely.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough team members to manage its workload. And team members do the right training for their roles. They do some ongoing training to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. Team members feel comfortable about raising any concerns they have.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean and tidy and provides a safe and appropriate environment for people to access its services. People can have a conversation with a team member in a private area. And the pharmacy is kept secure from unauthorised access.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
On the whole, the pharmacy provides its services safely and stores its medicines appropriately. The pharmacy can cater to people with different needs. And the team takes the right action in response to safety alerts to help ensure people get medicines which are fit for purpose. The pharmacy highlights prescriptions for higher-risk medicines so that there is an opportunity to speak with people when they collect these medicines.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the appropriate equipment to provide its services safely. And it protects people’s privacy when using this equipment.
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 |