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Cohens Chemist (1033135)

GPhC Reference 1033135

Inspection outcome: Standards met

Last inspection: 02/05/2019

Pharmacy context

This is a very busy community pharmacy located on a main road near to a medical centre. Most people who use the pharmacy are from the local area. The pharmacy dispenses mainly NHS prescriptions and sells a range of over-the-counter medicines. It supplies a large number of medicines in multi-compartment devices to help people take their medicines at the right time. Most of these are prepared in another Cohens pharmacy in the Bolton area.

Inspection summary findings

Principle 1. Governance

Standards met

The pharmacy adequately manages risks and completes all the records that it needs to by law. Members of the pharmacy team work to professional standards. They record some of their mistakes, so that they can learn from them and they act to help stop the same sort of mistakes from happening again. The team members keep people's private information safe. And they complete training so they know how to protect children and vulnerable adults. 

Principle 2. Staff

Standards met

The pharmacy team members are properly trained for the jobs they do. They get some ongoing training. But this does not happen regularly, so it may not always meet their needs and means their knowledge may not be always fully up to date. The team members work well together. They are comfortable about providing feedback to their manager and receive feedback about their own performance. The pharmacy enables the team members to act on their own initiative and use their professional judgement to the benefit of people who use the pharmacy’s services.

Principle 3. Premises

Standards met

The premises are clean and provide a safe, secure and professional environment for people to receive healthcare.

Principle 4. Services, including medicines management

Standards met

The pharmacy’s services are accessible to most people and they are generally well managed, so people receive their medicines safely. The pharmacy sources, stores and supplies medicines safely. And carries out some checks to ensure medicines are in good condition and suitable to supply.

Principle 5. Equipment and facilities

Standards met

The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely.

Pharmacy details

193 Bolton Road
Kearsley
BOLTON
BL49BX
England

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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

Met The pharmacy has met all the standards for registered pharmacies
Not all met 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:

Excellent practice The pharmacy delivers an innovative service and benefits the whole community and performs well against the standards
Good practice The pharmacy delivers positive outcomes for patients and performs well against most of the standards
Standards met The pharmacy meets all the standards
Standards not all met The pharmacy has not met one or more standards