Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 25/04/2022
Pharmacy context
This pharmacy is located within a parade of shops on a main road. It serves a mixed local population and a large proportion of patients of Bengali origin. The pharmacy receives most of its prescriptions electronically. It provides a delivery service. It also provides medication in multi‐compartment compliance packs to people who live in their own homes and need help managing their medicines. The inspection took place during the Covid‐19 pandemic.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy adequately manages the risks associated with its services. And it generally keeps the records it needs to by law, so it can show that supplies are made safely and legally. Team members generally respond appropriately when mistakes happen during the dispensing process. People who use the pharmacy can provide feedback. But the pharmacy could do more to ensure that its confidential waste is always disposed of appropriately.
Principle 2. Staff
There are enough staff to manage the pharmacy's workload and they are appropriately trained or enrolled onto suitable courses for the jobs they do. They feel comfortable about raising concerns and complete some ongoing training to help keep their skills and knowledge up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The premises are secure, clean and maintained to a level of hygiene appropriate for the pharmacy’s services. People can have a conversation with a team member in a private area.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
People can access the pharmacy’s services. The pharmacy has some systems in place for making sure that its services are organised. It orders its medicines from reputable sources and largely manages them properly. But its multi-compartment
compliance packs are not always assembled with the original prescription being
present. And this could increase the chance of mistakes happening. And it could do more to ensure that people taking higher-risk medicines are identified and provided with appropriate advice on their medicines.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely.
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 |