Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 05/11/2025
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Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy in a village in South Darenth. It provides NHS services such as the New Medicine Service, the Pharmacy First service and the Hypertension Case Finding service. It also provides flu and COVID vaccination services using patient group directions. It supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people who need this support. And it delivers medicines to some people’s homes. It also provides supervised administration of certain medicines.
This was a desktop reinspection of the pharmacy following an inspection in August 2025 where the pharmacy did not meet Standards 1.1, 3.1 and 4.3 but was meeting the other Standards. The reinspection focused on those Standards which had previously not been met. The pharmacy had previously been found to have expired stock in with its dispensing stock, but it has since demonstrated that expiry date checks have been carried out. The pharmacy now has standard operating procedures available, and staff had signed to show that they had read them. And it has replaced the broken handles on the drawers.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
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 |