Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 20/03/2025
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Pharmacy context
This independent community pharmacy is located in a residential area of Tamworth. Its main activity is the dispensing of medicines against NHS prescriptions. It provides NHS commissioned services such as Pharmacy First, New Medicine service and a blood pressure checking service. It also provides some private services including a pharmacist led prescribing service with face-to-face consultations, and ear wax removal. Some medicines are supplied to people in multi-compartment compliance packs to help them take their medicines correctly. And a medicine delivery service is available.
This was a reinspection following an inspection in August 2024 where the pharmacy did not meet Standards 1.1 and 1.6 in relation to its prescribing service. This reinspection focused on those Standards which had previously not been met. Since the last inspection, the pharmacy has reviewed the pharmacist led prescribing service. It has produced written risk assessments and prescribing policies for the service, and it has carried out a prescribing audit. In addition, the format in which the prescribing records are kept has been updated and improved.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
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 |