Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 11/07/2025
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Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. Its main services include dispensing NHS prescriptions and selling a range of over-the-counter medicines. It provides a range of services including a home delivery service, NHS Pharmacy First, NHS blood pressure check service and the NHS New Medicine Service (NMS). It supplies some people with their medicines dispensed into multi-compartment compliance packs. Some prescriptions supplied by the pharmacy are dispensed at an offsite hub pharmacy.
This was a routine inspection of the pharmacy which focused on the core Standards relating to patient safety. Not all the Standards were inspected on this occasion. The pharmacy was last inspected in February 2017.
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 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 |