Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 21/02/2020
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy located in a large Sainsburys supermarket in the town of Newport on the Isle of Wight. It serves its local population which is mixed in age range and background. The pharmacy opens seven days a week. The pharmacy sells a range of over-the-counter medicines, dispenses NHS prescriptions, provides flu vaccinations and supplies medicines in multi-compartment compliance aids for people to use living in their own homes.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy has written procedures to help make sure the team works safely. Pharmacy team members are clear about their roles and responsibilities. Pharmacy team members record and review some mistakes that happen and use this information and learning to avoid future mistakes. But errors could be analysed more thoroughly so that learning opportunities are not missed. The pharmacy asks its customers and staff for their views and uses this to help improve services. It manages and protects people’s confidential information and it tells people how their private information will be used. The pharmacy has appropriate insurance to protect people when things do go wrong. The pharmacy generally maintains the records that it must keep by law.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy staff have the appropriate skills, qualifications and training to deliver services safely and effectively. The pharmacy team members work well together. They are comfortable about providing feedback and raising concerns and are involved in improving pharmacy services.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy generally provides a safe and appropriate environment for the provision of pharmacy services. The pharmacy team protects private information and the pharmacy is secure and protected from unauthorised access.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy’s services are accessible, effectively managed and delivered safely. The pharmacy generally obtains, stores and manages medicines safely and ensure that all of the medicines it supplies are fit for purpose. The pharmacy team take appropriate action where a medicine is not fit for purpose and maintain audit trails to demonstrate this.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has access to the appropriate equipment and facilities to provide the services offered. These are used in a way that helps protect patient confidentiality and dignity.
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 |