Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 01/05/2024
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is inside HMP Wandsworth. It provides services to the prison including dispensing prescriptions and administering medicines on the wings to patients. The pharmacy team provides additional services such as medicine reconciliation. The pharmacy also has appropriate authority to supply medicines including controlled drugs as stock to other healthcare services within 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. They support and assist vulnerable people. The pharmacy deals with its mistakes responsibly. But because it does not record all the information it could, team members may be missing some learning opportunities to make things safer.
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 are given opportunities for self‐development. And they 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.
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. And the pharmacy team take the right actions to support people’s health and wellbeing.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Members of the pharmacy team have access to the equipment they need for the services provided. 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 |