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H A McParland Ltd (1087285)

Inspection outcome: Standards met

Last inspection: 22/01/2020

Pharmacy context

A pharmacy located next to a surgery in Newbury. The pharmacy dispenses NHS and private prescriptions, sells a range of over‐the‐counter medicines and provides health advice. The pharmacy also dispenses some medicines in multi-compartment compliance aids (MDS trays or blister packs) for those who may have difficulty managing their medicines at home and they process a high volume of batch prescriptions. The pharmacy provides a supervised consumption service and a local delivery service.

Inspection summary findings

Principle 1. Governance

Standards met

Overall, the pharmacy’s working practices are safe and effective. It records and reviews its mistakes to learn from them and to prevent them from happening again. Team members keeps people’s information safe and they help to protect vulnerable people. The pharmacy also keeps the records required by law. But it is not keeping some of those records up to date, which may mean that discrepancies and mistakes cannot be rectified in a timely manner.

Principle 2. Staff

Standards met

The pharmacy has enough staff to manage its workload. It makes sure its team members are appropriately trained for the jobs they do. They complete regular additional training to help them keep their knowledge up to date. They can use their professional judgement to decide whether it is safe to supply medicines.

Principle 3. Premises

Standards met

The pharmacy's premises are clean, tidy and suitable for the provision of its services. The premises are well maintained, and they are secure when closed. Pharmacy team members use a private room for sensitive conversations with people to protect their privacy.

Principle 4. Services, including medicines management

Standards met

The pharmacy delivers its services in a safe and effective manner, and people with a range of needs can access them. The pharmacy sources, stores and manages medicines safely, and so makes sure that the medicines it supplies are fit for purpose. Team members identify people supplied with high-risk medicines so that they can be given any extra information they may need to take their medicines safely. The pharmacy responds satisfactorily to drug alerts or product recalls so that people only receive medicines or devices which are safe for them to take.

Principle 5. Equipment and facilities

Standards met

The pharmacy has the equipment it needs for the delivery of its services. It looks after this equipment to ensure it works and is accurate.

Pharmacy details

T/A Wash Common Pharmacy
Monks Lane
NEWBURY
RG147RW
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