Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 28/05/2025
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Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy next to a GP surgery in a largely residential area of Ashford. It provides NHS services such as the New Medicine Service, the Pharmacy First service, Hypertension Case Finding. It provides a flu, COVID and travel vaccinations service using patient group directions. And it delivers medicines to some people’s homes. It also provides supervised administration of certain medicines and a needle exchange service. It supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs to people who need this support, and these packs are dispensed by the company's offsite dispensing hub.
This was an 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 January 2016.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
Principle 2. Staff
Principle 3. Premises
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
Pharmacy details
St. Stephens Health Centre
St. Stephens Walk
Stanhope
ASHFORD
TN235AQ
England
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 |