Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 07/09/2022
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is inside HMP ISIS and dispenses medicines for the prison.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Overall, the pharmacy identifies and manages the risks associated with the provision of its services. The pharmacy maintains the records it should. Its team members have identified roles and accountabilities. The pharmacy has procedures to learn from its mistakes.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has adequate numbers of staff to manage its workload. Staff can raise concerns if necessary. The pharmacy's team members have access to ongoing training modules. This helps keep their knowledge and skills up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy keeps its premises safe, secure, and appropriately maintained. The premises have enough space to deliver the services it provides. And the pharmacy's team members keep the premises clean.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its services safely. The pharmacy gets its medicines and medical devices from reputable sources and stores them safely. It takes the right actions if any medicines or devices are not safe to use to protect people’s health and wellbeing.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has access to a suitable range of equipment and facilities for the services it provides.
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 |