Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 17/03/2022
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is an independent, traditional community pharmacy. It is on a small parade of shops on the outskirts of Wishaw town centre. It provides a range of services including dispensing prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. It provides a range of other services including a prescription collection service and a medicines’ delivery service. It also provides substance misuse services, and it supplies medicines on the NHS Pharmacy First service. This pharmacy was inspected during the COVID‐19 pandemic when restrictions had been mostly lifted in Scotland.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy has written procedures in place to help ensure that its team members work safely. And it has insurance to cover its services. The pharmacy team has adapted its working practices suitably to minimise risks to people's safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. And it knows how to protect the safety of vulnerable people. The pharmacy protects people’s private information appropriately. And in general it has suitable procedures to identify the risks associated with its day-to-day services.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy manages its workload safely and effectively. And its team members support one another. They are comfortable about providing feedback to one another, so that they can improve the quality of the pharmacy's services.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy’s premises provide a suitable environment for people to receive its services. They are tidy and organised. And they are sufficiently clean and secure.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its services safely. And makes them adequately accessible for people. The pharmacy team gets its medicines and medical devices from appropriate sources. Team members make the necessary checks to ensure that the pharmacy’s medicines and devices are safe to use to protect people’s health and wellbeing. The pharmacy generally stores its medicines properly. But it is not always thorough enough in ensuring that it keeps all medicines for dispensing in the appropriate packaging. And it is not always thorough enough in ensuring that it properly labels and 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 |