Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 05/06/2023
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy in a residential area of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. The pharmacy is open 100 hours every week. It dispenses NHS and private prescriptions. The pharmacy offers local deliveries and seasonal vaccinations. And the team provides some people’s medicines inside multi-compartment compliance packs if they find it difficult to take them.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy is operating appropriately. It has suitable systems in place to identify and manage the risks associated with its services. Members of the pharmacy team understand their role in protecting the welfare of vulnerable people. The pharmacy overall, protects people’s private information suitably. And it largely maintains its records as it should.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has adequate numbers of staff to suitably manage its workload. The pharmacy provides its services using a team with different levels of experience. And the pharmacy’s team members are supported in their roles.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy's premises have an adequate amount of space to deliver its services from. The pharmacy is kept clean and tidy. And it has a separate space where confidential conversations and services can take place.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy obtains its medicines from reputable sources. The pharmacy team suitably delivers prescription medicines to people’s homes and supplies medicines inside compliance packs in a safe way. The pharmacy is also open for long hours. This means that people can easily access its services. But the pharmacy does not always manage its medicines in the most effective way. The pharmacy’s team members are not always identifying people who receive higher-risk medicines or making the relevant checks. This makes it difficult for them to show that people are provided with appropriate advice when these medicines are supplied.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the necessary equipment and facilities it needs to provide its services safely. And its equipment is kept suitably clean.
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 |