Inspection outcome: Standards not all met
Last inspection: 16/10/2025
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Improvement action plan
Pharmacy context
This is a community pharmacy in a residential suburb of Brighton. It provides NHS services such as dispensing. And it offers a range of private services such as cryotherapy and ear irrigation, and supplies prescription-only medicines under Patient Group Directions. The pharmacy dispensed medicines into multi-compartment compliance packs for people who need this additional support. And it offers a delivery service to people’s homes. The pharmacy also works with a third-party CQC-registered prescribing service who issue prescriptions for weight loss medicines. The inspection was undertaken over two days, on 16 and 21 October 2025.
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 February 2016, when it was under different ownership.
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 does 'pharmacy has not met all standards' mean?
When a pharmacy has not met all standards, they are required to complete an improvement action plan, which you can find via a link at the top left of this page. We monitor progress to check the improvements are made and inspect again after six months to make sure the pharmacy is maintaining these improvements. A new report will then be published.