Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 01/04/2019
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is on the main street in Grantown-on-Spey. It dispenses NHS prescriptions for the local population. And offers a delivery service to housebound and vulnerable people. The pharmacy team supplies medicines in multi-compartment medicine devices for vulnerable people. And offers independent living aids and equipment to help people with mobility issues.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are clean. And provide a safe, secure and professional environment for patients to receive healthcare.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide safe services. Systems are in place to ensure equipment used for services such as blood pressure and blood glucose levels are accurate. Up-to-date resources on the clincial use of medicines is available to the pharmacy team so they can check the medicines are appropriate for patients as necessary.
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 |