Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 18/06/2019
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy located on a row of shops in a residential area. 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 small number of medicines in multi-compartment devices to help people take their medicines at the right time.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
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 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 the complete training, so they know how to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy team members are suitably trained or undertaking appropriate training for the roles they carry out. The team members work well together. They are comfortable providing feedback to their manager and receive informal feedback about their own performance.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are secure and generally provide a suitable environment for people to receive healthcare.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy offers a range of healthcare services which are generally well managed to help make sure people receive their medicines safely. It sources 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
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely.
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 |