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Gold's Pharmacy Gants Hill (1031293)

Inspection outcome: Standards met

Last inspection: 23/09/2020

Pharmacy context

This pharmacy is situated on a busy main road in close proximity to an Underground station. The pharmacy is open for extended hours. It supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people who need help managing their medicines. The inspection was undertaken during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Inspection summary findings

Principle 1. Governance

Standards met

The pharmacy adequately manages the risks associated with its services. People who use the pharmacy can provide feedback and raise concerns. And the pharmacy team knows how to help protect the welfare of vulnerable people. Team members generally respond appropriately when mistakes happen during the dispensing process. This provides them with opportunities to learn and make the services safer.

Principle 2. Staff

Standards met

The pharmacy has enough team members to dispense and supply its medicines safely, and they work effectively together and are supportive of one another. Team members are given some ongoing training to keep their knowledge and skills up to date.

Principle 3. Premises

Standards met

The premises are suitable for the pharmacy’s services and are clean. People can have a conversation with a team member in a private area. But the pharmacy could do more to make sure that it keeps people’s private information secure at all times.

Principle 4. Services, including medicines management

Standards met

The pharmacy provides its services safely and people can access them. The pharmacy gets its stock from reputable sources and stores it properly. Team members take the right action when safety alerts are received, to ensure that people get medicines and medical devices that are safe to use. But they don’t routinely record what action they have taken about these alerts. This could make it harder for them to show what they have done in response.

Principle 5. Equipment and facilities

Standards met

The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely. And it generally maintains its equipment well.

Pharmacy details

24 Seven Ways Parade
Gants Hill
ILFORD
IG26JX
England

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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

Met The pharmacy has met all the standards for registered pharmacies
Not all met 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:

Excellent practice The pharmacy delivers an innovative service and benefits the whole community and performs well against the standards
Good practice The pharmacy delivers positive outcomes for patients and performs well against most of the standards
Standards met The pharmacy meets all the standards
Standards not all met The pharmacy has not met one or more standards