Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 22/11/2022
Pharmacy context
A traditional community pharmacy in the small village of Muirkirk. The pharmacy provides a range of services including dispensing prescriptions and selling over‐the‐counter medicines. It provides a selection of other services including a prescription collection service and a medicines’ delivery service. It also provides a flu vaccination service and the NHS Pharmacy First service. And it supplies medicines for its substance misuse service.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy has written procedures in place to help ensure that its team members work safely. And the team understands and follows them. The pharmacy has insurance to cover its services. And it completes the records it needs to by law. The pharmacy team knows how to protect the safety of vulnerable people. And it protects people’s private information properly. The pharmacy adequately identifies and manages the risks associated with its services. Team members respond appropriately when mistakes happen. And they take suitable action to prevent mistakes in the future.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy team has an appropriate range of skills and experience to support its services. And it manages its workload safely and effectively. Its team members support one another well. And they keep their knowledge up to date. Team members receive sufficient feedback to help them carry out their tasks satisfactorily.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy’s premises provide a suitable environment for people to receive its services. The pharmacy is tidy and organised. And it is sufficiently clean and secure.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its
services safely and makes them accessible to people. And it supports people
with suitable advice and healthcare information. The pharmacy team gets its
medicines and medical devices from appropriate sources. And team members make
the necessary checks to ensure they are safe to use and protect people’s health
and wellbeing. The pharmacy generally stores its medicines properly. But it
does not ensure it properly packages all the medicines it supplies.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment and facilities it needs to provide services safely. And it keeps them clean. The team uses its facilities and equipment to keep people's private information safe
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 |