Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 16/12/2025
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Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy situated in the same building as a large medical centre on a main road into Brighton. The pharmacy provides NHS services such as dispensing, the Pharmacy First service, and smoking cessation. It offers a travel clinic provided vaccinations against prescriptions issued by company prescribers. And it has a private prescribing service where a company prescriber would issue a prescription, and the person would collect the medicine from the pharmacy. Conditions prescribed for included weight loss and erectile dysfunction. The pharmacy offers a home delivery service, and many of its prescriptions are dispensed by its offsite hub. The pharmacy also supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs for those people who need this additional support.
This was a routine inspection of the pharmacy which focused on the core Standards relating to patient safety. Not all the Standards were inspected on this occasion. The pharmacy was last inspected in December 2015.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
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 |