Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 31/07/2025
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Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is on a housing estate in the Nottinghamshire town of Newark-on-Trent. Its main services include dispensing NHS prescriptions, selling over-the-counter medicines and providing advice to people. It provides some NHS consultation services including the New Medicine Service (NMS), NHS blood pressure check service and NHS Pharmacy First service. The pharmacy supplies some medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs, designed to help people remember to take their medicines. And it delivers medicines to people’s homes.
This was a reinspection following an inspection in April 2025 where the pharmacy did not meet Standard 4.3. This reinspection mainly focused on the Standard which had previously not been met along with some areas for improvement identified at the previous inspection. The pharmacy has improved since the last inspection. It has acted in a timely manner to review and improve its medicine storage arrangements. And it is conducting regular checks to ensure its medicines continue to be held safely. Team members demonstrate the actions they are taking to reduce risk when working. They record mistakes that happen during the dispensing process. And they engage in shared learning opportunities to help them understand the risks they identify and put measures in place to manage them.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
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 |