Inspection outcome: Standards met
Last inspection: 12/09/2024
Pharmacy context
This community pharmacy is in the town of Dinnington in South Yorkshire. Its main services include dispensing NHS prescriptions and selling over-the-counter medicines. It provides NHS services including Pharmacy First, blood pressure checks and the New Medicine Service (NMS). The pharmacy supplies some medicines in multi-compartment compliance packs, designed to help people remember to take their medicines. It also supplies medicines to people residing in care homes. And it offers a medicine delivery service to people.
Inspection summary findings
Principle 1. Governance
The pharmacy identifies and
manages the risks for the services it provides. It keeps people’s confidential
information secure. And it generally keeps the records it must by law. Its team
members conduct regular checks to help the pharmacy in maintain the required
standards. Pharmacy team members understand how to recognise and report
safeguarding concerns to help keep vulnerable people safe from harm. And they
share learning and take action to reduce risk following the mistakes they make
during the dispensing process.
Principle 2. Staff
The pharmacy employs a team of people with the appropriate skills and knowledge to provide its services effectively. Pharmacy team members put patient safety first by engaging in regular shared learning to support the safe management of pharmacy services. They engage in some learning at work relevant to their current roles and they know how to raise concerns at work. But they do not always have the opportunity to rotate into new roles to expand their learning and development.
Principle 3. Premises
The pharmacy is secure and maintained to an appropriate standard. It offers a professional environment for delivering its services. People using the pharmacy can speak with a member of the pharmacy team in a private consultation room.
Principle 4. Services, including medicines management
The pharmacy’s services are accessible to people. It obtains its medicines from recognised suppliers, and it stores these safely and securely. Pharmacy team members make regular checks to ensure medicines are safe to supply to people. They provide relevant information when supplying medicines to people to support them in taking their medicines safely. And overall, they follow safe practices and show how they consider risk when dispensing medicines.
Principle 5. Equipment and facilities
The pharmacy has the equipment and facilities it required to provide its services. And its team members manage and use equipment appropriately.
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 |