Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 23/09/2024
Pharmacy context
This is a pharmacy located within the David Lewis Centre, which is a charitable trust that provides a range of educational, residential, and medical services to support adults and young people with complex needs including learning disabilities, epilepsy, and autism. Clinicians onsite prescribe long term medication and local GPs provide a daily clinic to prescribe for acute conditions. The pharmacy’s main service is to dispense private prescriptions for people living on the site. They dispense most medicines for people in multi-compartment compliance packs.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy provides its team members with a comprehensive set of written instructions to support them in safely providing pharmacy services. It monitors mistakes made within the dispensing process and the pharmacy team implements changes to the way it works to reduce the risk of similar mistakes happening again. The pharmacy keeps the records it needs to by law and keeps people’s private information safe. It adequately supports the team to understand their role to safeguard vulnerable adults and children.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy employs a small team, who are suitably skilled and experienced safely manage its workload. It has processes in place to support its team to complete ongoing training to help keep their knowledge and skills up to date. They work well together and can raise concerns and provide feedback where necessary.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is kept secure and clean. It is of a suitable size for the pharmacy team to manage the pharmacy’s services safely.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy effectively manages the risks associated with the services provided to people. The pharmacy team suitably stores and manages its medicines to ensure they are fit for purpose before supply to people.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Pharmacy team members have access to appropriate equipment for the services they provide. The equipment is fit for purpose and safe to use. Team members use equipment and facilities appropriately to protect people's confidentiality.
Pharmacy details
David Lewis Centre
Mill Lane
Warford
ALDERLEY EDGE
SK97UD
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 |