Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 21/06/2019
Pharmacy context
This is a traditional community pharmacy situated on a main road of a suburban residential area, serving the local population. It mainly prepares NHS prescription medicines and orders repeat prescriptions on behalf of people. It also prepares medicines in weekly multi-compartment compliance aids to help make sure people take them safely. And it provides a substance misuse treatment service. The pharmacy also provides other NHS services such as Medicines Use Reviews (MURs), emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) and flu vaccinations.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy generally manages its risks well. It provides the pharmacy team with written instructions to help make sure it provides safe services. The team records and reviews its mistakes so that it can learn from them. It keeps people’s information secure. And the team understands its role in protecting and supporting vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough staff to provide safe and effective services. And the team has the skills and experience needed for its services. Each team member has a performance review and completes relevant training on time, so their skills and knowledge are up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are clean, safe, secure and spacious enough for the pharmacy’s services. And it has a private consultation room, so members of the public can have confidential conversations.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy’s working practices generally help make sure people receive safe and efficient services. It gets its medicines from licensed suppliers and it generally manages its medicines well to make sure they are in good condition, so are suitable to supply.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment and facilities that it needs to provide its services effectively.
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 |