Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 09/07/2026
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Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy located on a busy main road in the centre of Melton Mowbray. It is open extended hours Monday to Saturday and most of its activity is dispensing NHS prescriptions. It also provides a prescription delivery service, the NHS Pharmacy First service, and it supplies medicines in multi‐compartment compliance packs to some people. This was a reinspection following an inspection in November 2025 where the pharmacy did not meet Standards 1.2 and 4.3. This inspection focused on the Standards which had previously not been met. The pharmacy has procedures in place to deal with dispensing incidents and near misses. They record them, review them, and the team were able to explain what they had learnt from them to make their processes safer. Stock medicines were now stored tidily with different medicines and strengths of medicines separated. Staff were able to clearly explain the importance of putting stock away neatly and how this reduced the risk of a dispensing mistake being made.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
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 |
Inspection History
- November 2025 - View inspection report (PDF 112.7KB)
- November 2025 - Improvement action plan
- June 2025 - View inspection report (PDF 116.2KB)
- June 2025 - Improvement action plan
- November 2024 - View inspection report (PDF 113.0KB)
- November 2024 - Improvement action plan
- September 2021 - View inspection report (PDF 111.4KB)