Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 12/03/2024
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is situated inside the Royal Liverpool Hospital in Liverpool city centre. The pharmacy premises are accessible for people, with adequate space in the retail area. The pharmacy dispenses NHS outpatient and A&E prescriptions It also sells pharmacy medicines and has a consultation room available for private conversations.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy manages the risks associated with its services and protects peoples’ information. Members of the pharmacy team work to professional standards and are clear about their roles and responsibilities. They record their mistakes so that they can learn from them. And they take action to help reduce the risk of the same sort of mistakes from happening again. The pharmacy keeps the records required by law.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough staff to manage its workload safely. And the team members are comfortable about providing feedback to the pharmacist. The pharmacy enables its team members to act on their own initiative. And the team has access to ongoing training, to help them continue learning.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is clean and tidy. It is suitable place to provide healthcare services. And it has a consultation room so that people can have a conversation in private with a member of the pharmacy team.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy’s services are accessible to people, and they are well managed, so people receive their medicines safely. The pharmacy team completes extra checks when supplying higher-risk medicines, to make sure they are being used properly. The pharmacy sources and stores medicines appropriately and carries out checks to help make sure that they are kept in good condition and suitable to supply.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide services safely. It is used in a way that protects privacy. And the electrical equipment is regularly tested to make sure it is safe.
Pharmacy details
Outpatients Pharmacy, Royal Liverpool Hospital
Ground Floor
Mount Vernon Street
Liverpool
L78YE
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 |