Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 24/04/2024
Pharmacy context
This is a pharmacy situated inside HMP Oakwood near Featherstone, in Staffordshire. It is registered as a pharmacy to dispense prescriptions for people living in seven prison establishments across Staffordshire and West Midlands. The pharmacy is not open to the public and is separate to the healthcare team inside the prison.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy has written procedures which are followed by the pharmacy team. And this helps to maintain the safety and effectiveness of the pharmacy's services. The pharmacy keeps the records it needs to by law. And members of the team are given training so that they know how to keep private information safe. They review and discuss things that go wrong to help identify learning opportunities. But records of the reviews are not kept which would help to identify underlying themes.
Principle 2. Staff
There are enough members of the team to manage the pharmacy's workload and they are appropriately trained for the jobs they complete. Members of the pharmacy team complete additional training to help them keep their knowledge up to date. They routinely identify improvements to the clinical prescribing of medicines and intervene when necessary. And they routinely attend team meetings with the prison's healthcare team which helps to improve patient care.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean, secure and suitably maintained. It provides a suitable space for the services it provides.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy's services are accessible by the intended users. And it manages and provides them safely. It gets its medicines from licensed sources, stores them appropriately and carries out regular checks to help make sure that they are in good condition. But the pharmacy does not always complete or make a record of prescriptions that have received a clinical check before they are supplied. Which may increase the risk of them being supplied without professional oversight to ensure they are safe to use.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Members of the pharmacy team have access to the equipment they need for the services they provide. And they maintain the equipment so that it is safe to use.
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 |