Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 30/04/2019
Pharmacy context
This is a small community pharmacy in a residential suburb of Brighton and Hove. It is close to a local school and a care home. It dispenses NHS prescriptions, and is planning to provide Medicines Use Reviews and the New Medicine Service in the future. It has recently been taken over by a new owner.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy generally manages the risks associated with its services well. It mostly keeps the records it needs to by law. And people can give feedback and raise concerns about the pharmacy’s services. Team members know how to protect vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
There are enough team members to safely deliver the pharmacy’s services. They can raise concerns and make suggestions to improve the services people receive.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are generally secure and suitable for the pharmacy’s services. People can have a conversation with a pharmacist in a private area.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy is good at making its services accessible to people. And it reaches out to local organisations to help promote awareness of health issues. It generally provides its services safely and mostly manages its medicines appropriately. It takes the right action in response to safety alerts. This helps make sure that people get medicines and devices that are safe to use.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy generally has the right equipment for its services.
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 |