Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 04/01/2024
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is in a health centre in a residential area of Rotherham in South Yorkshire. Its main services include dispensing prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. The pharmacy provides a seasonal flu and COVID vaccination service. It supplies some medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs, designed to help people remember to take their medicines. And it delivers some medicines to people’s homes.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Overall, the pharmacy effectively identifies and manages the risks associated with providing its services. It mostly keeps the records it needs to by law. And it keeps people’s confidential information secure. Pharmacy team members know how to respond to feedback. And they are supported in recognising and reporting concerns to protect potentially vulnerable people. They behave openly and honestly by sharing learning and through acting to reduce risk following the mistakes they make when dispensing medicines.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has a dedicated team of people who work together well to provide its services. Team members engage in learning relevant to their roles. And they are keen to share and implement their ideas to support the efficient delivery of the pharmacy’s services.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean, secure, and maintained well. It provides a professional environment for delivering healthcare services. People using the pharmacy can speak to a member of the team in a private consultation room.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy’s services are accessible to people. It obtains its medicines from licensed sources. And it stores its medicines safely and securely. The team carry out checks to ensure medicines are safe to supply to people. And it provides relevant information to help people take their medicines safely.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs for providing its services. And pharmacy team members use the equipment and facilities with care to protect people’s confidentiality.
Pharmacy details
Valley Health Centre
Saville Street
Dalton
Rotherham
S653HD
England
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 |