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Milton Of Leys Pharmacy (1122567)

Inspection outcome: Standards met

Last inspection: 02/04/2019

Improvement action plan

 

Pharmacy context

The pharmacy is on the outskirts of Inverness and has been providing pharmacy services since it first opened in 2014. The pharmacy dispenses NHS prescriptions. And supplies medicines in multi-compartment medicine devices to support people. The pharmacy offers a prescription collection and delivery service when needed.

Inspection summary findings

Principle 1. Governance

Standards met

The pharmacy team completes training and works to professional standards. They provide safe services and look after people. The pharmacy keeps records of mistakes when they happen. And the pharmacist carries out checks to make sure the pharmacy is running safely. The pharmacy team discuss the need for safety improvements. And there is ongoing service improvement. The pharmacy keeps the records it needs to by law. It understands its role in protecting vulnerable people. And it undertakes regular training to keep confidential information safe. People using the pharmacy can raise concerns. And staff know to follow the company's complaints handling procedure. This means that staff listen to people and put things right when they can.

 

Principle 2. Staff

Standards met

The pharmacy monitors its staffing levels. And ensures it has the right number of staff in its pharmacy teams throughout the week. The pharmacy encourages and supports staff to learn and develop.  And provides access to training. The pharmacy team are trained to carry out their roles. But, at busy times the pharmacy team carries out activities they are not qualified for. The pharmacy team support each other in their day-to-day work. They can speak up and suggest service improvements. And they share ideas and learnings to keep services safe.  


Principle 3. Premises

Standards met

The premises are clean. And provide a safe, secure and professional environment for patients to receive healthcare.

Principle 4. Services, including medicines management

Standards met

The pharmacy provides a range of services to the Inverness area.  And provides dispensing services to care homes. The pharmacy displays its opening times and services in the window. And ​​has a comfortable seated waiting area. The pharmacy provides information leaflets for self-selection. And provides extra support to people to take their medicines.  It carries out dispensing in an organised manner. This means that services are safe and people do not run out of their medicines. The pharmacy sources, stores and manages medicines. And updates the pharmacy team about high-risk medicines. This means that team members know when to provide people with additional information.

 
 


 

Principle 5. Equipment and facilities

Standards met

The pharmacy has the equipment it needs to provide its services safely. Up-to-date resources on the clincial use of medicines is available to the pharmacy team. So, they are able to check if medicines are appropriate for patients if they need to. 

Pharmacy details

Leys Square
INVERNESS
IV26HF
Scotland

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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

Met The pharmacy has met all the standards for registered pharmacies
Not all met 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:

Excellent practice The pharmacy delivers an innovative service and benefits the whole community and performs well against the standards
Good practice The pharmacy delivers positive outcomes for patients and performs well against most of the standards
Standards met The pharmacy meets all the standards
Standards not all met The pharmacy has not met one or more standards