Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 03/03/2020
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy, located on the main road in the centre of the village of Barnham. The pharmacy dispenses NHS prescriptions, provides healthcare advice to people living in Barnham and the surrounding villages. It also supplies medicines in multicompartment compliance aids (blister packs or trays), for those patients who may have difficulty managing or remembering to take their medicines. And also provides pharmacy services to one local nursing home. The regular pharmacist provides a travel clinic service.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy provides services appropriately in line with processes and procedures, which are followed by staff. Team members review and learn from mistakes that occur during the dispensing process to prevent similar mistakes in future. And the pharmacy team asks people for their views and use this feedback to improve their services. The pharmacy team keep the records they need to by law. The pharmacy protects people's private information and the team members understand their roles in protecting vulnerable people.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy’s team members have the skills and training for the roles they undertake. The pharmacy supports the ongoing learning and development of its staff to keep their skills and knowledge up to date. The pharmacy team can make suggestions and get involved in making improvements to the systems used and services provided.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy premises are clean, safe, secure. And provide a suitable and professional environment for the pharmacy services provided.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy delivers its services in a safe and effective manner and people receive appropriate advice and support to help them use their medicines properly. The pharmacy advertises its services and people can easily access them. The pharmacy sources, stores and manages medicines appropriately. And so makes sure that all the medicines it supplies are fit for purpose.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment and facilities it needs to provide its services safely. And it uses these to make sure people's private information is protected.
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 |