Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 05/03/2020
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is in the centre of a small village near to a surgery. It is part of a small chain of pharmacies and is co‐located with a Post Office. The nearest large town is Dartford which is around a 15-minute drive away. The people who use the pharmacy are mainly older people. The pharmacy receives around 80% of its prescriptions electronically. It provides a range of services, including Medicines Use Reviews and the New Medicine Service. It uses patient group directions to supply influenza vaccinations and Champix. It provides multi‐compartment compliance packs to large number of people who live in their own homes to help them take their medicines safely. And it provides substance misuse medications to a small number of people.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy identifies and manages the risks associated with its services to help provide them safely. It records and regularly reviews any mistakes that happen during the dispensing process. It uses this information to help make its services safer and reduce any future risk. And team members understand their role in protecting vulnerable people. The pharmacy protects people’s personal information and it regularly seeks feedback from people who use the pharmacy. It keeps the records it needs to keep by law and these are largely accurate.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough trained team members to provide its services safely. They do the right training for their roles. And they are provided with some ongoing training to support their learning needs and maintain their knowledge and skills. Team members can raise concerns to do with the pharmacy or other issues affecting people’s safety. This means that they can help improve the systems in the pharmacy. The team members can take professional decisions to ensure people taking medicines are safe.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises provide a safe, secure, and clean environment for the pharmacy's services. People can have a conversation with a team member in a private area.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its services safely and manages them well. The pharmacy gets its medicines from reputable suppliers and stores them properly. It responds appropriately to drug alerts and product recalls. This helps make sure that its medicines and devices are safe for people to use. People with a range of needs can access the pharmacy’s services. The pharmacy highlights prescriptions for higher-risk medicines so that there is an opportunity to speak with people when they collect these medicines.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely. It uses its equipment to help protect people’s personal information.
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 |