Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 13/02/2023
Pharmacy context
The pharmacy is open extended hours and is located within a parade of shops on a busy main road. People who use the pharmacy are mainly from the local area. The pharmacy supplies medicines in multi‐compartment compliance packs to people who need help managing their medicines. It provides the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service, the New Medicine Service and flu vaccinations.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy's working practices are largely safe and effective. The pharmacy generally keeps the records it needs to by law so that medicines are supplied safely and legally. The pharmacy asks its customers for their views. Team members use the procedures in place to protect vulnerable people. The pharmacy doesn't consistently record or review near misses which may mean that team members are missing out on opportunities to learn and make the pharmacy’s services safer.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy has enough team members for the services provided, and they do the right training for their roles. They work effectively together. The pharmacy supports its team members with ongoing training. This helps them keep their knowledge and skills up to date.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy's premises provide an appropriate environment to deliver its services from. And its premises are suitably clean and secure. People using the pharmacy can have conversations with team members in a private area.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy provides its services safely and makes its services accessible for people. It gets its medicines and medical devices from appropriate sources and generally stores them properly. Team members make the necessary checks to ensure that the pharmacy's medicines and medical devices are safe to use to protect people's health and wellbeing.
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 |